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In hushed but angry voices, some of the country’s businessmen expressed frustration over the government’s handling of the pandemic and the jaw-dropping web of questionable COVID-19-related supply deals involving the President’s men.
I felt this brewing sentiment after having dinner recently with (...)
The extension of the strict lockdown in Metro Manila and nearby provinces will likely drag on Philippine economic growth and drive investors away, several economists said on Sunday.
Extending the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the country’s main economic hub, as well as Bulacan, Cavite, (...)
The holiday season was always a busy time for 38-year-old Elsa Maniego. Around this time, she and her workmates would be abuzz with helping prepare meals for Christmas gatherings.
But the sounds and smells they are familiar with — the clink of silverware and plates, the aroma of gourmet food — (...)
In his late-night Talk to the Nation on COVID-19 on 6 April, Rodrigo Duterte, the populist President of the Philippines, echoed the affirmation of leaders from rich countries in North America, Europe, and Asia: to do “whatever it takes” for the economy to survive the pandemic. The problem, (...)
An ambitious plan to improve Manila’s water shortage is leaving Filipino villagers high and dry.
The journey to the crown jewel of China’s Philippine ambitions is long, bumpy, and dangerous. A two-hour ride from the nearest city of Infanta, on a dirt track navigable only by motorcycle or 4×4, (...)
The tragedy of Hanjin Philippines illustrates the folly of a development model that relies exclusively on a volatile global export market, has no forward or backward linkages with the national and local economies, and relies on incentives and subsidies from the host government.
Hanjin Heavy (...)
With their calloused feet testifying to a lifetime of traversing rock-strewn mountain paths, Corita and Jesus Fortunato are familiar with every corner of a lush valley straddling the river Kaliwa, in the Philippines’ Sierra Madre mountain range, where they have lived since they were born – (...)
Public imagination has a distorted picture of what Chinese FDI looks like. It’s much more than the “Belt and Road.”
In October 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte’s visit to China brought an earmarked $24 billion worth of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) and overseas development aid (ODA) for (...)
12 on 12/12; Mining-affected communities, with different environmental, and climate justice groups from 12 different sites all over the Philippines conduct a simultaneous, coordinated action demanding DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu and President Rodrigo Duterte to issue an executive order officially (...)
When Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency in May 2016, he inherited an economy that was growing at an average rate of 6.2 percent annually. Investor confidence was on the upswing since the country got its first ever investment grade debt rating midway into President Benigno Aquino III’s term. The (...)
The Duterte administration heralds the next five years as the “Golden Age of Infrastructure.” Infrastructure development is envisaged to support the three pillars of the 2017-2022 Philippine Development Plan (PDP), namely malasakit (enhancing social fabric), pagbabago (inequality-reducing (...)
Since assuming office, President Rodrigo Duterte has constanly reassured the public of his promise to sustain the previous administration’s momentum for social development as well as to confront the challenges it failed to address by introducing radical changes.
Although the first few months of (...)
THE popularity of Asia’s newest and most colorful strongman keeps soaring. The Social Weather Station (SWS) reported that 78 percent of the population gave President Duterte positive satisfactory rating in June 2017; Pulse Asia, SWS’s rival in public opinion polling, submitted an even higher (...)
Following President Duterte’s state visit to China in October 2016, 27 deals have been signed with Chinese state entities and business corporations covering around US$9 billion in loans and US$15 billion in investments. The President proudly touts these achievements as having been made possible (...)
IBON FEATURES – Presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte projected a vastly different image from the other presidential candidates and indeed from every national politician the Philippines has ever had: coarse, cussing, irreverent, misogynistic, an unrepentant human rights violator, and a (...)
DAVAO CITY—Presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte wants to change the Constitution to lift restrictive foreign investment laws as part of his eight-point economic plan to boost the economy, a senior aide said on Thursday.
He also plans to spend more to address crumbling infrastructure and make (...)
MIDNIGHT TRADE DEAL: Why is the Aquino government rushing a free trade deal with Europe?
The EU-ASEAN Network has questioned what it called a ‘mad rush’ to conclude a comprehensive free trade deals before its term expires on June 30 2016.
The network’s reaction comes in the wake of the (...)
Barricade! This was the decision of the people of Santa Cruz: to finally exercise their right in order to prevent the destruction of nature, lives and livelihoods, because for years, big mining companies, Benguet Nickel Mines Inc (BNMI), Zambales Diversified Metals Corp (ZDMC), Eramen Minerals (...)
That the poverty situation in the Philippines has not improved has been the cause of much concern lately. According to the National Statistics Coordination Board, 27.9 percent of the population currently lives below the poverty line, a figure that was practically unchanged from the figure of (...)
Statement of the EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign Network on day of Global Action to Defeat Free Trade and investment Treaties and the International Day of Peasants and Farmers Struggle. NEW GENERATION FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS: A THREAT TO LIFE AND LIVELIHOODS
Multi-Sectoral Network Calls On Philippine (...)
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