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Higher taxes await Filipinos as debt amounts to trillions

By | Jul 13, 2022

“The most productive in our history.” This was how former finance secretary Carlos Dominguez described former President Rodrigo Duterte’s economic legacy. However, official figures on the country’s ballooning debt since 2016 tell a different story.

The ill logic of rice liberalization

The ill logic of rice liberalization

by | Jun 28, 2021

June 27, 2021/ by Rosario Guzman/IBON Foundation Runaway inflation has always been our economic managers’ alibi for liberalizing importation. Food always takes a beating from this short-sighted policy, as it has the single biggest weight of 36% in the average...

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