Despite sunny projections from the Marcos administration, the World Bank, and other financial institutions, the Philippine economy is on a continuing trajectory of slowdown unless its growth engines are fundamentally reformed, IBON Foundation said. Headline growth figures mask deep-seated...
By SONNY AFRICA IBON Foundation The United States (US) is maneuvering the rest of the G7 into its all-defining great power competition with China. Underlying the official G7 agenda in Hiroshima is the US effort to make containing China a shared priority of all G7...
By ROSARIO GUZMAN IBON Foundation The 49th summit of the Group of 7 (G7) countries (namely, United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan) is taking place on 19-21 May 2023 in Hiroshima, Japan. The declared agenda is Russia’s aggression...
By JOPAR CRUZ IBON Foundation Simula noong ipatupad ang SIM Registration Act o RA 11934 noong huling bahagi ng Disyembre 2022, kaliwa’t kanan na ang pagkabahala ng mga tao kung papaano nga ba makakapagparehistro ng kani-kanilang SIM card. Sa kabila ito ng mga...
By SONNY AFRICA IBON Foundation The United States (US) got everything it wanted from Pres. Bongbong Marcos’s 4-day official visit, and made sure the Philippines didn’t ask for anything that the US doesn’t want to give. Marcos Jr got the American validation he wanted...
Research group IBON observed that labor productivity has been increasing while workers’ real wages are falling. The gains from growing productivity are not going to workers as higher wages but to the profits of corporations and the wealth of the super-rich, said the...
By CAY PIEDAD IBON Foundation The Metro Rail Transit Line 7 (MRT 7) project was one of the hyped Infrastructure Flagship Projects (IFPs) under the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte. It is a Php77-billion unsolicited Public-Private Partnership (PPP)...
Inflation in the country will remain high, the group said, unless the Marcos administration takes decisive steps to temper it.
Instead of concealing how millions of Filipino workers and their families are struggling to live on family poverty wages, the government can and should immediately give a substantial and meaningful wage increase.
Research group IBON said that the Duterte administration can use revenue generated by its regressive Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law to fund emergency cash assistance.
July 3, 2021 by IBON Foundation Despite economic managers’ claims, the country’s jobs situation is bleak and far from returning to pre-pandemic levels, said research group IBON. Millions of Filipinos are still struggling to find work or turning more and more to...
IBON Features-- Peasant and indigenous people’s groups in the region mark March 29 as the Global Day of the Landless. Initiated by the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), it highlights the rural communities’ continuing struggle for land. In the Philippines, such struggle...
It isn't really just about the special traffic lanes or even the reorganizing of the life of the nation's capital for a few days because of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Although they do make visible the real problem with APEC – it's an...