{"id":18915,"date":"2026-07-25T14:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/?p=18915"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:12:46","slug":"hyped-economic-progress-at-the-expense-of-filipinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/hyped-economic-progress-at-the-expense-of-filipinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyped economic progress at the expense of Filipinos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Marcos Jr administration vowed to create more jobs to fight poverty.<\/a> While employment reportedly increased by 3.5 million to 49.6 million from May 2022 to May 2026, the Philippines has the worst unemployment in Southeast Asia. Poverty and inequality also worsened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Marcos Jr administration promised to provide high-quality, well-paying job opportunities for the Filipino workforce<\/a>. <\/strong>But many working Filipinos struggle with insecure and informal work, low earnings, poor working conditions and violations of their labor rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Marcos Jr administration said it would prioritize agriculture<\/a> and strengthen support<\/a> for farmers and fisherfolk. But the sector is in crisis, and farmers and fisherfolk are struggling with low incomes, insecure livelihoods and threats to their land and fishing grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Marcos Jr administration said it would provide proper and affordable housing<\/a> for the poor. But urban poor communities are being demolished and displaced by government-facilitated projects and affordable housing remains lacking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Marcos Jr administration vowed to promote and protect women\u2019s rights<\/a>.\u00a0 But Filipino women still struggle with discrimination and limited job opportunities, lack of or no support, as well as violence and exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Marcos Jr administration promised to prioritize youth\u2019s welfare<\/a> under Bagong Pilipinas. However, Filipino youth are faced with poverty, worsening joblessness, and lack of educational opportunities and support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Marcos Jr administration promised to protect indigenous rights<\/a> and support peace and development<\/a> for the Bangsamoro. But national minorities are the poorest and most vulnerable sectors, faced with displacement and attacks as destructive projects threaten their ancestral lands and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Marcos Jr administration promised to address health sector challenges<\/a>. But health care for ordinary Filipinos remains unaffordable and inaccessible as the government prioritizes privatized health over a strong public healthcare system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Marcos Jr administration said it would protect the environment<\/a> through sustainable development, climate resilience, and biodiversity conservation. Yet environmental destruction worsens with the proliferation of government-facilitated big business projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,39],"tags":[4442,617,2707,4443,130,279,4101,353,121,134,2972,116,223,555,159,327],"class_list":["post-18915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacies","category-infographics","tag-sona2026","tag-environment","tag-filipino-farmers","tag-filipino-fisherfolk","tag-filipino-women","tag-filipino-workers","tag-filipino-youth","tag-health","tag-inequality","tag-jobs","tag-marcos-jr-administration","tag-philippine-economy","tag-philippine-environment","tag-philippine-health-system","tag-poverty","tag-urban-poor","wpautop"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 20:00:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18926,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915\/revisions\/18926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}