Tag: Philippine economy
IBON Research Head on DBCC cut of 2025-2028 growth forecasts
Hunyo 27, 2025
On US bombing of Iran
Hunyo 22, 2025
The US serves its hegemonic ambitions and military-industrial corporate profits at the expense of people’s rights, national sovereignty, and global peace.
Impunity and underdevelopment under Marcos Jr
Hunyo 14, 2025
When populists take power, the people become fodder for self-serving ambition, and our goals for development and human rights are, at best, afterthoughts. At worst, they’re trampled on for being inconvenient obstacles to personal wealth and power. The spectacle of political theater and intentional delay of the vice-president’s impeachment trial in the Senate confirms institutional […]
Gaining from non-alignment
Hunyo 14, 2025
PH largest recipient of US foreign aid in Southeast Asia
Hunyo 14, 2025
Half-million drop in manufacturing: Jobs crisis highlights urgency of Filipino industrialization – IBON
Hunyo 8, 2025
Despite government claims of job resilience, research group IBON said that the country’s jobs crisis persists with significant manufacturing losses and worsening quality of work. The year-on-year increase in unemployed and underemployed Filipinos, lack of decent work, and huge drop in manufacturing jobs underscore the urgent need for a serious national industrialization strategy to create […]
Great Cabinet Revamp is a dud
Mayo 25, 2025
There’s no doubt that a revamp of government, governance and the Cabinet is overdue. But the Cabinet revamp can’t just be recycling combined with superficially new names or faces. It should mean new ideas for solving old problems and the political will to act on them.
IBON hits limited BBM Na! program
Mayo 23, 2025
The BBM Na! program smacks of insincerity. It rations rice to poor households, scrimps on funding, and leaves out millions who also struggle to afford food. This is far from the sweeping effort needed to make Php20 rice a reality and is just a public relations gimmick dressed up as policy.
