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Greater Manila ECQ/MECQ shallow without aggressive COVID response – IBON

May 5, 2021

Ayuda urgent: Jobs crisis still worse than before pandemic — IBON

April 30, 2021

More than enough funds available to give urgent cash aid — IBON

April 26, 2021

IBON: Gov’t should rectify, ramp up COVID-19 aid

March 29, 2021

EDSA spirit lives on: Braving authoritarian pandemic restrictions, the people faced the crisis together

February 25, 2021

IBON 2021 Yearstarter Birdtalk Briefing Paper: Solving the pandemic crisis

February 21, 2021

Shifting to MGCQ a short-sighted and desperate move without containing pandemic–IBON

February 18, 2021

IBON Praymer: Di maubus-ubos na sapin-saping krisis

February 6, 2021

Features

The Philippines is not expected to be ahead of the vaccine race being a poor, non-industrial and import-dependent country. But despite our underdevelopment, we still deserve better and more efficient government handling of our predicament.

Mass vaccination PH: Throwing away our shots (Part Two)

April 15, 2021

A number of Asian countries are seeing an increase in COVID with surges particularly large in South Asia and, in Southeast Asia, the Philippines. The Duterte administration has been telling us since last year that the arrival of vaccines is its ultimate solution but, dismally, these are coming in trickles.

Mass vaccination PH: Throwing away our shots (Part One)

April 15, 2021

FEATURES – The Duterte government can do a lot of things to recover domestic hog production, consumer capacity and the national economy. But it has just opted to cater to private profits, foreign pressures and whims of public officials. And they have just been hogging everything to themselves, as they have done during the pandemic lockdown and beyond.

What’s up, pork? (Part Two)

March 19, 2021

The Philippines needs a much more ambitious COVID-19 economic response than the Duterte administration’s current business-as-usual approach.

14 Charts: What the Government Has Done to Our Pandemic Economy

February 10, 2021

STATEMENT

The country’s poorest and most marginalized are being left behind by the COVID-19 response of the Duterte administration. On the other hand, wealthy creditors are protected and large corporations including foreign investors are getting their profits boosted.

Duterte gov’t fails to meet its human rights obligations amid the pandemic

December 10, 2020

FEATURES | The government’s defeatist attitude and blind surrender to market forces is the biggest reason why Philippine rice production and domestic agriculture as a whole remains so backward

Filipino rice farmers need support, not liberalization

November 1, 2020

Bird Feed

Rosario Guzman

Inequality in a time of pandemic: perspectives and proposals from the global South

Xandra Liza C. Bisenio

Charter change compromises Philippine economy

Xandra Liza C. Bisenio

Gaining ground vs disaster vulnerability

Gie Flores

Where do we go from here?

Jose Lorenzo Lim

Surviving surgery in the middle of COVID-19

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Infographics

There is Money for Ayuda

ASEAN COVID-19 statistics and response measures

Late rollout, slow vaccination

National outstanding debt under the Duterte administration and one year after the pandemic onset