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

October 29, 2020

Proposed 2021 health budget shrinks, neglects public health–IBON 

September 22, 2020

Budget for infrastructure towers over health, social protection, MSME support–IBON

September 16, 2020

PH ‘stimulus’ smallest in region

July 29, 2020

IBON opens to gov’t inspection days before anti-terrorism law effectivity

July 15, 2020

Gov’t creating pretext to use Anti-Terrorism Law against IBON?

July 11, 2020

Higher inflation for poorest Filipinos underscores urgent need for continued cash subsidies

July 8, 2020

Gov’t should check SAP’s gross failure as COVID cases rise – IBON

June 30, 2020

Features

Features | The government is maintaining the country’s high dependence on coal, putting into doubt whether it is genuinely concerned about the Philippine environment and declaring a climate emergency.

Dirty Duterte admin: More coal energy than ever

October 24, 2020

COMMENTARY

Our economic managers would do well to stop being blinded by their neoliberal dogma and start taking a more strategic view of national development. Without radical changes in our economic policies the Philippines will just keep getting left further behind.

IMF sees Vietnam overtaking PH: It’s not because of COVID

October 15, 2020

FEATURES

The government should prioritize subsidizing small jeepney drivers and operators and at least postpone costly infrastructure projects that are less urgent because of the pandemic.

Transport budget for infra but none for affected jeepney drivers

October 15, 2020

FEATURES

The corporate onslaught on agriculture, Filipino producers and consumers has to be thwarted for local production systems to break free from big business and foreign profit-driven objectives. Philippine agriculture can then flourish and contribute to the nation’s needs and development through ecologically sound, scientific and sustainable practices.

Fighting for our rights to food, a healthy environment and development

October 14, 2020

Features | President Duterte has reportedly ordered a review of loan agreements to determine if any are onerous and disadvantageous to the Filipino people. Yet the Kaliwa Dam project which has come under fire for its unfavorable Chinese loan agreement has already started.

Four reasons why the Kaliwa Dam Project loan is onerous

October 11, 2020

COMMENTARY BY CASEY SALAMANCA

By hyping UHC, government pays lip service to the Filipino people’s right to health. The right to health pertains to a person’s overall well-being.

Telltale signs that health care in the Philippines is not universal

October 5, 2020

Bird Feed

Xandra Liza C. Bisenio
Xandra Liza C. Bisenio

Promised SAP zapped

Sonny Africa
Sonny Africa

SONA 2020: “Boracay is doing well because of its scenery”

Rosario Guzman
Rosario Guzman

Talking ‘bout a (bike) revolution

Sok
Sok

Araw-Lilim

Maricar R. Piedad
Maricar R. Piedad

COVID-19: How prepared are we now?

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The 2021 Budget: Abandoning Public Health, Aid, MSMEs and Agriculture

The 2021 Budget: Infrastructure over health, aid and MSME support

PhilHealth Failure

Duterte administration’s 2021 budget priorities