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Continue reading →: Richest Filipinos and ‘Endo’ kings are Duterte’s friendsWith the biggest employers of contractual workers like Henry Sy and Ramon Ang as Duterte’s biggest backers, Duterte’s failure to fulfill his promise of ending endo should not come as a surprise.
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Continue reading →: SONA 2018: How much have prices increased in Duterte’s first two years?Prices today are rising five times faster than they were before President Duterte took over.
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Continue reading →: SONA 2018: Cha-cha, US free trade deal, and all-out economic liberalization under DuterteCharter change for greater liberalization of the economy and a bilateral free trade deal attest to the leading role that the US continues to play in shaping Philippine economic direction even amid the rise of China.
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Continue reading →: Minimum wage is only 13 to 27% of NEDA’s cost of decent livingUnder fire for its Php10,000-gaffe, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) is now saying, through Secretary Ernesto Pernia, that the cost of decent living for an ordinary family is Php42,000. This admission by the country’s chief economist on the amount required by a Filipino household to afford a decent…
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Continue reading →: The curious case of NEDA’s Php10,000NEDA (National Economic and Development Authority) did not say that a family of five could live decently with Php10,000 a month, according to Rappler’s “Fact-Check”. End of debate? Actually no. While NEDA may not have directly referred to the Php10,000 as enough for decent living, the whole issue is what…
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