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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

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

Features

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

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

Bird Feed

Rosario Guzman

A People’s Green New Deal? A look at PH labor

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?

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Infographics

Vaccination too slow to stop COVID-19 spread

There is Money for Ayuda

ASEAN COVID-19 statistics and response measures

Late rollout, slow vaccination