Tag: poverty
Cash subsidies for poorest households urgent as inflation reaches 21-month high
Enero 5, 2021
In the face of soaring prices, joblessness and meager incomes, emergency cash subsidies for the poorest Filipinos and support for small businesses need to be increased substantially. Distribute Bayanihan 2 cash assistance immediately, and a new cash subsidy program to cover several millions of vulnerable citizens should be drawn up.
Gaining ground vs disaster vulnerability
Enero 3, 2021
No matter how bad things were last year, civic action kept our hopes high
Poverty incidence of farmers and fisherfolk
Oktubre 17, 2020
The agriculture sector’s annual growth was only at 2.1% on average in 2017-2019, and its share in the economy has reached its smallest in Philippine history at 7.8% of GDP in 2019.
The pre-COVID-19 plight of the poor and government’s old ways
Abril 22, 2020
BIRD FEED
Doesn’t the plight of the poor tell us that something is wrong with the way things are and needs fixing? That relief for millions of vulnerable households is still taking too long to arrive now that there is a public health emergency bares government’s long-standing unconcern for them.
On the sixth week of lockdown: Millions of Filipinos going hungry, suffer amid worst mass unemployment in history
Abril 21, 2020
NEWS
Millions of Filipinos are going hungry and suffering the worst mass unemployment in the country’s history as the sixth week of lockdown begins.
Unwanted Normalcies
Abril 12, 2020
Dealing with COVID-19: Just reboot the economy?
Marso 30, 2020
POLICY NOTE
The coronavirus pandemic and the expansive efforts to address it are new and unprecedented. But they also exposed many old problems that have always been there.
Luzon income inequality in the time of COVID-19
Marso 22, 2020
INFOGRAPHIC
Luzon income inequality in the time of COVID-19
