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IBON asks: How much of Villar wealth is driven by BBB?

October 29, 2020

Research group: Davao businessmen may be benefiting from Duterte admin’s infra program

July 26, 2019

Duterte selling out sovereignty for Chinese funding – IBON

June 20, 2019

Businessmen cashing in on Metro Manila Reclamation project–IBON

February 21, 2019

Second year of slowing growth a wake-up call – IBON

January 24, 2019

Beware of onerous China ODA – IBON

November 19, 2018

New large dams onerous for Filipinos — IBON

October 5, 2018

No to large dams: MWSS water security roadmap may cause more insecurity-WPN

September 26, 2018

Features

BY SONNY AFRICA

The debt crisis is already upon us – just not the kind that the economic managers and creditors are worried about where debt payments to lenders are interrupted.

Duterte govt: Just Can’t Debt Enough

October 4, 2020

BY JOSE LORENZO LIM

Are the planned infrastructure projects really what the economy needs right now after everything that’s happened this year? How much of the infrastructure helps fight the COVID-19 pandemic?

It really hurts: Economic infrastructure over health

September 12, 2020

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The government is still hell-bent on pursuing a grand infrastructure program amid the pandemic and despite its actually bleak accomplishments so far. The government says it will revise its list of infrastructure projects to adapt to COVID-19. But does it really have the will to shift the focus of its infrastructure program, or even the capacity to fully implement this?

On the BBB fix: Why do you build me up?

July 11, 2020

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The Duterte government can address the transport crisis in the time of COVID-19 and in fact can look at the pandemic as an opportunity to overhaul the system. The health protocols may be followed indeed if only the government recognizes and addresses the transport crisis in a scientific manner.

Part 2: The anomaly of transport modernization

June 27, 2020

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The Philippines has to improve the current state of infrastructure especially in the context of COVID-19: one that supports a strong public health system and the stable production of the nation’s needs in order to withstand and battle a pandemic.

The fate of BBB in the time of COVID-19

May 7, 2020

by Rosario Bella Guzman There is a growing concern about the phenomenal increase of Chinese capital flowing into the Philippine economy. China has recently overtaken the US in terms of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and trade. In the first semester of 2018, FDI from China amounted to US$175 million as compared with Japan’s US$154 […]

Heightening China-PH economic relations: friends with benefits?

November 19, 2018

Infographics

Pipeline Projects Under China’s ODA

Second Basket Projects Under China’s ODA

First Basket Projects Under China’s ODA