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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

Crisis upon crisis: 2021 Yearstarter Birdtalk highlights

January 23, 2021

Economic cha-cha is no vaccine for recovery or development

January 13, 2021

Cash subsidies for poorest households urgent as inflation reaches 21-month high

January 5, 2021

Features

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

Features | We may survive the pandemic, but we are headed towards even greater downward pressure on wages and working conditions amid greater repression of organized labor. We are headed towards increasing compulsion of capitalists to seek rapid growth at all costs, including environmental and social costs.

Neoliberalism and our multiple crises in the COVID era: Dare to struggle, dare to win

November 1, 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

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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Late rollout, slow vaccination

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

A Year After Lockdown: Govt Responsible for Worst Economic Collapse in History

A Year After Lockdown: Meager Support for MSMEs