Economics for the Filipino people #PeopleEconomics
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The Philippines is the world's 2nd largest nickel producer and has the 6th largest nickel reserves. #BuildFilipino
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Yet despite decades of mineral extraction, domestic processing by Filipinos and industrial linkages remain weak. The country's mineral wealth has not been harnessed for local industries. #BuildFilipino
Damages to the economy and the people are mounting on top of long-standing vulnerabilities. Yet government response is dryer and even harsher than Super El Niño.
#UpholdRightsAndWelfare #BuildFilipino
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IBON Executive Director Sonny Africa on the Philippine peso slump
#BuildFilipino #StriveForSovereigntyAndIndependence
Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan LIVE
#ProtectTheEnvironment
#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
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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
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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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