infrastructure budget

The President’s Budget

Oktubre 17, 2025

About the recently-enacted 2025 national government budget

Disyembre 31, 2024

Pres. Marcos Jr said that the newly signed General Appropriations Act for 2025 reflects the government’s commitment to “[transform] economic gains into meaningful outcomes for every Filipino.” The Php6.326-trillion national budget however only reinforces the country’s undemocratic politics and inequitable economy. It still has hundreds of billions of pesos for pork barrel projects, confidential and […]

IBON Executive Director Sonny Africa on enacted 2025 national government budget

Disyembre 31, 2024

The people have to beg and struggle for every precious peso for education, health, housing and ayuda that they’re entitled to as a matter of right, and that the government should give as a matter of obligation

2024 Budget Cuts and Increases From 2023

Oktubre 3, 2023

Debt servicing, infrastructure and defense are getting big increases in the 2024 budget. But much-needed service-oriented areas such as education, social work, labor and health are either given negligible increases or defunded.

Chronically ailing PH public health system under Duterte

Abril 7, 2022

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Duterte has not taken significant measures that will strengthen the public health system and make health services accessible and equitable to the Filipino people.

More for infra and military than education

Oktubre 12, 2021

Big budget for infra agencies, low disbursement under Duterte

Oktubre 3, 2021

The Duterte administration budgets so much for infrastructure but isn’t even able to spend all of it. The proposed 2022 infrastructure budget is even bigger — shouldn’t more of the allocation be used for health, ayuda and small business support instead?