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The overwhelming win of an unorthodox Presidential candidate in the May 2016 elections promised several windows for reforms. For a country stricken with poverty and a worsening jobs crisis, beyond a coarse-mannered figurehead, prospects that this new leadership could jumpstart measures to improve the lives of the poor majority of Filipinos were introduced.<\/p>\n
In the span the new administration\u2019s first half-year, the nation bore witness to an unprecedented presidential stance on foreign policy and an openness to work and negotiate with non-traditional political forces. Meanwhile, the political circus threatens, including the Marcoses\u2019 attempt to return and the saga of \u00a0Senate hearings on controversial issues and personalities. This, amid continuing State-sanctioned anti-drugs executions. Have concrete steps been taken to initialize the substantial change that the people await? Is change indeed underway?<\/p>\n
The IBON 2016 Yearend Birdtalk will be held on 13 January 2017 at 1:00 o\u2019clock to 5 o\u2019clock in the afternoon (venue to be announced) for a briefing on the above issues, questions and more<\/strong><\/em>. Birdtalk is IBON\u2019s semi-annual assessment of economic and political trends.<\/p>\n Everyone is enjoined to participate in this very timely discussion. The registration fee of Php175 will cover the Briefing Paper and modest snacks. Call 9276986 and 9277060-61 for details.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The overwhelming win of an unorthodox Presidential candidate in the May 2016 elections promised several windows for reforms. For a country stricken with poverty and a worsening jobs crisis, beyond a coarse-mannered figurehead, prospects that this new leadership could jumpstart measures to improve the lives of the poor majority of Filipinos were introduced. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5943,"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":[547,40,4,12],"tags":[770,347,769,116,640,771],"class_list":["post-5942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educators-forum-for-development","category-events-and-announcements","category-headline","category-national-socioeconomic-situation","tag-birtdalk","tag-duterte-administration","tag-economic-and-political-briefing","tag-philippine-economy","tag-socio-economic-issues","tag-yearend-2016","wpautop"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 22:00:11","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\/5942","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=5942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5944,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions\/5944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}