The poor’s calvary

Abril 16, 2025

Bakit tuloy-tuloy ang pagtaas ng presyo ng bilihin sa bansa? Ano ang solusyon?

Abril 14, 2025

Kaliwa’t kanan ang pahayag ng gobyernong Marcos Jr na nilulutas nito ang inflation, pero walang nakikitang epekto hanggang ngayon. Ano nga ba ang nagtutulak ng mataas na presyo at paano ito sosolusyonan?

IBON Calls for Structural Reforms to Address Poverty and Inequality as UN CESCR Reviews Philippine Compliance on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

Pebrero 19, 2025

STATEMENT

The economy should stop just making a few oligarchs and foreign capital prosperous. Realizing economic, social, and cultural rights requires more than growth and demands national industrialization, land reform and rural development, just wages and secure jobs, and universal social services.

Marcos Jr admin oblivious, failing to arrest deteriorating people’s welfare — IBON

Enero 24, 2025

If the economy is so steady and employment so robust, why are more Filipinos unable to afford what they need and falling into poverty?

What robust labor market?

Enero 18, 2025

The Long Game of Development (3)

Disyembre 8, 2024

We can’t neglect the most important strategy of democratic mass mobilizations to shift the balance of power and policies towards the majority.

The Long Game of Development (2)

Disyembre 8, 2024

From the 18th century and the first industrial revolution, how much have great leaps in technologies really contributed to fixing social underdevelopment? The expanding poverty and vulnerability of billions of people gives an answer.

PH “upper middle-income status” is just a number and a fantasy

Disyembre 1, 2024

The measure of being an upper-middle income country refers to an average that completely obscures the conditions of the majority. UMIC doesn’t really mean development in its most important sense of the well-being of people.

PH food insecurity worsening to among highest in region underscores multiple gov’t failures – IBON

Oktubre 16, 2024

NEWS

The Philippines having the third worst incidence of severe and moderate food insecurity in Southeast Asia shows the Marcos Jr administration’s failure on multiple development fronts.