Economics for the Filipino people #PeopleEconomics
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KALINGA depends heavily on executive discretion and emergency declarations. Assistance is triggered only after specified conditions are met, even though households begin absorbing higher prices from the first day of an oil price surge.
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By the time emergency mechanisms are activated, many families have already cut back on meals, delayed medical care, borrowed money, or sacrificed other basic needs.
#UpholdRightsAndWelfare
#SahodTrabahoAtKarapatan
The IMF-World Bank are a historical phenomenon in the Philippines have done much to institutionalize foreign domination, entrench neoliberalism as economic orthodoxy, and make underdevelopment self-perpetuating.
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After more than six decades of intervention, the question remains—who decides the country’s economic future?
#imfworldbank2026 #StriveForSovereigntyAndIndependence
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Paano nga ba nakakarating sa mga botika at ospital ang mga nereresetang gamot? 💊⚕️🧑‍⚕️ Saan sa proseso nakakapasok at nakaka-monopolize ang Big Pharma?
#healthcheka
#UpholdRightsAndWelfare
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Genuine energy security requires ending privatization and oligopolization and building a publicly-owned, nationally-planned and democratically-controlled energy system.
#StopPrivatization #UpholdRightsAndWelfare #GreenActionWeek
Read more: ibon.org/tl/us-ph-energy-dea…
The country's agricultural crisis has only gotten worse under Marcos Jr and is bound to further decline due to the administration's unrepentant neglect.
#DevelopTheCountryside
#LandToTheTillersFoodForAll
#GreenActionWeek
Web: ibon.org/en/agriculture-decl…
The IMF-World Bank are a historical phenomenon in the Philippines whose interventions have evolved but remain extremely potent.
After more than six decades of intervention, the question remains—who decides the country’s economic future?
#imfwb2026
ibon.org/en/how-imf-wb-remad…
Paano nga ba nakakarating sa mga botika at ospital ang mga nereresetang gamot? 💊⚕️🧑‍⚕️ Saan sa proseso nakakapasok at nakaka-monopolize ang Big Pharma? #healthcheka
One of the national government’s responses to the national energy emergency crisis: ayuda.
#BuildFilipino
#UpholdRightsAndWelfare
#GreenActionWeek
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But ayuda isn’t a livelihood; it isn’t a guaranteed improvement for a sustainable quality of life.
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The Philippines has become increasingly dependent on imported food. Rice self-sufficiency fell from 91% in 1990 to 78.1% in 2025. We produce only 4.4% of the garlic we consume.
#DevelopAgriculture
#WorldFoodlessDay
#GreenActionWeek
Import dependence leaves Filipinos vulnerable to rising prices and global supply shocks. Our farmers struggle to sustain local production.
#DevelopAgriculture
#WorldFoodlessDay
#GreenActionWeek
The Philippines has the worst food insecurity in Southeast Asia with 37.8 million moderately/ severly food insecure people, surpassing both double the number in Myanmar and thrice that of Indonesia.
#WorldFoodlessDay
#DevelopAgriculture
#GreenActionWeek
Attendees of the launch of POWER signed a symbolic pledge of solidarity under the call: “Serbisyo sa tao, huwag gawing negosyo. Stop privatization. Build public, democratic control of power and energy now.”
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The country needs to do away with power privatization that has prioritized the profits of a few firms over public interest. Instead, there should be a shift to public, democratic control of the power sector.
#StopPrivatization #GreenActionWeek
Read: ibon.org/tl/stop-power-priva…
The share of electricity in an average Filipino family's spending has increased 1.6 times since the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) was enacted.
#StopPrivatization #UpholdRightsAndWelfare #greenactionweek
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70% of PH power grid capacity is held by firms of the super-rich: Aboitiz, Ramon Ang, Lopez, Ayala, and Pangilinan. Pinoy consumers are trapped with some of the highest power rates in Asia, transferring meager household incomes straight into the pockets of a few billionaires.
#StopPrivatization #UpholdRightsAndWelfare
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