Tag: Philippine economy
Three-year-high inflation rate for bottom 30%: BBM’s inaction hits poorest hardest—IBON
Oktubre 7, 2026
Research group IBON said that the three-year-high 9% inflation rate for the bottom 30% of Filipino families shows that the poorest are bearing the brunt of rising prices amid the Marcos administration’s failure to address unabated oil price shocks. The group said the government’s measures to cushion the impact of price hikes are too small […]
Marcos Sr most anti-nationalist president PH has ever seen
Setyembre 20, 2026
Marcos Jr prioritizing US’ strategic needs
Setyembre 20, 2026
Like his father, Marcos Jr is using the powers of the state to open up and restructure the Philippine economy, according to the agenda of foreign monopoly capital, especially the US.
Filipinos can’t keep up with prices as wages lag and government help falls short
Agosto 15, 2026
ANALYSIS
Filipinos continue to struggle with the high cost of living as prices keep rising faster than what their incomes can keep up with.
Pax Silica: Whose industrialization is it anyway?
Agosto 12, 2026
The shiny cutting edge high-tech Pax Silica may indeed be different this time. Unfortunately, the way things are going, it will be different in the sense of a new level of dependence and making real Filipino industrialization even harder.
Pax Silica’s Cookie-Crumb Investments Will Not Feed the Philippines
Hulyo 29, 2026
Through Pax Silica, the Marcos Jr administration allows the plunder of the country’s resources for fleeting cheap jobs and false promises of industrialization.
Hyped economic progress at the expense of Filipinos
Hulyo 25, 2026
The Marcos Jr administration claims economic success, saying that its policies have brought the country to upper middle-income status. But this seeks to hide a deeper reality: the growth model hyped by the government has made a few prosperous at the expense of millions of Filipinos and the environment. The Marcos Jr administration vowed to […]
