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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

Capitalism Upon COVID-19

December 25, 2020

Govt stinginess worsens Filipinos’ suffering and PH economic collapse

November 10, 2020

Proposed 2021 health budget shrinks, neglects public health–IBON 

September 22, 2020

PH ‘stimulus’ smallest in region

July 29, 2020

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

June 30, 2020

Open-air jeepneys safer against COVID-19 than enclosed modernized counterparts

June 21, 2020

Features

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

BY SONNY AFRICA

The debt crisis is already upon us – just not the kind that the economic managers and creditors are worried about where debt payments to lenders are interrupted.

Duterte govt: Just Can’t Debt Enough

October 4, 2020

BY JOSE LORENZO LIM

Are these projects really what will bring economic recovery while the nation grapples with a crisis-stricken public health system and economic decline?

Never Gonna Give You Up: Duterte’s Top 2021 Infrastructure Flagship Projects and Recovery

October 3, 2020

Bird Feed

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

Xandra Liza C. Bisenio

Promised SAP zapped

Landings

Infographics

Money to Vaccinate Everyone for Free

Duterte’s Pandemic Borrowing

Millions left behind during lockdown

Low goals, slower delivery