Group challenges Senate: Stop Charter change
May 21, 2019
Aside from establishing a federal state and removing term limits, Cha-cha would implement neoliberal amendments to the Philippine constitution.
Ibon Foundation
WANTED: An Independent Senate
May 17, 2019
Candidates should adhere to the advancement of socioeconomic strategies. Filipino industries should be protected and supported instead of allowing foreign companies to dominate the Philippine economy.
Employers can afford Php750 minimum wage—IBON
May 1, 2019
The growing productivity of Filipino workers is among the main drivers of economic growth and they deserve a significant wage increase, IBON said.
Workers left behind in growing economy under Duterte administration
April 30, 2019
IBON’s estimates using the latest available data, for 2016, show that a Php750 minimum wage in NCR will only cost 9.8% of the profits of establishments and still leave them with Php1.17 trillion in profits.
Don’t insist on low poverty threshold, address jobs crisis, gov’t told
April 25, 2019
The Php575.18 average daily basic pay of wage and salary workers in January 2018 is not even enough at 60% of the estimated Php955 National Capital Region family living wage.
Lower official poverty estimates don’t mean less poor Filipinos — IBON
April 11, 2019
IBON observed that the supposed improvement is based on a daily per capita poverty threshold averaging just some Php69.50 nationwide and a daily per capita subsistence or food threshold of only some Php48.60 in the first semester of 2018.
Gov’t designed Kaliwa loan to favor China
April 3, 2019
IBON executive director Sonny Africa however warned that the Kaliwa loan agreement signed last year during the visit of Chinese president Xi Jinping is unduly biased for China and against the Philippines.
Govt should be transparent, release 9 signed foreign loan agreements — IBON
March 17, 2019
Research group IBON said the Duterte administration should immediately release to the public all nine foreign loan agreements it has already signed for infrastructure projects,
Businessmen cashing in on Metro Manila Reclamation project–IBON
February 22, 2019
Research group IBON said that the Manila Bay reclamation project under the Build, Build, Build program is a profit-led infrastructure plan that will mainly benefit
Second year of slowing growth a wake-up call – IBON
January 27, 2019
Research group IBON said that the second year of slowing growth under the Duterte administration should be enough to jolt it out of its complacency
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