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Business-as-usual 2022 budget unresponsive to pandemic – IBON

August 26, 2021

2022 budget stalls recovery, worsens inequality

August 23, 2021

June labor force survey confirms economy not recovering despite reopening

August 3, 2021

IBON Praymer: Ang pagwawakas sa rehimeng Duterte

July 17, 2021

Ayuda still needed even with shift to GCQ

May 15, 2021

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

Features

The government has announced the easing of community quarantines. But new cases are still rising and there are no signs of government taking additional measures to fix the health system during the last two weeks of stricter lockdowns. If the health system is as weak as ever, what’s our way out of the pandemic?

Duterte administration’s shift to MECQ meaningless without urgent COVID-19 steps

August 20, 2021

There is a raging debate about whether or not the WTO should temporarily waive some intellectual property rights of Covid-19 pharmaceuticals. Developed countries oppose the proposal, but recently the US has announced its limited support, while the EU continues to wrangle over its necessity. For proponents, the waiver would speed up and scale up vaccine production and contribute to a faster vaccination process in poorer countries.

The TRIPS waiver on Covid-19 pharmaceuticals and the Big Pharma

June 2, 2021

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

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Rediscovering our traditional and indigenous knowledge in agriculture

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Green beginnings

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No more COVID-19 ayuda, stingy increases in social assistance

Jobs crisis rages, ayuda diminishes

The Family Living Wage (as of July 2021)

PhilHealth’s slow COVID claims processing