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Continue reading →: Counting the poor, measuring poverty
Just before the Holy Week break, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that the country’s poverty incidence dropped to 16.1% of families in the first half of 2018 from 22.2% during the same period in 2015. Among individuals, the poverty incidence fell to 21% from 27.6 percent. This supposedly means…
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Continue reading →: Landlessness, poverty and war in Negros
“Kaya dun po sa amin Di biro ang magtanim Magpunla ka ng binhi Punglo ang aanihin.” (Magtanim ay di biro) On Mar 30, 2019, the police and military killed 14 farmers in separate operations in the city of Canlaon and in the towns of Manjuyod and Sta. Catalina – all…
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Continue reading →: Questions on Manila Water’s compensation
Still reeling from public backlash, Manila Water will now “voluntarily” compensate consumers affected by the water supply interruptions. The estimate is that the initial compensation will cost the Ayala firm Php150 million. That obviously is merely a drop in the ocean of Manila Water profits, so to speak. In 2018,…
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Continue reading →: Privatization is creating an artificial water shortage
Focusing on just Manila Water absolves Maynilad of accountability, and reinforces the wrong notion that the issue is simply mismanagement on the part of Manila Water. It also diverts the issue away from privatization as the central issue in, and underlying reason behind, the artificial shortage.
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Continue reading →: Who is afraid of IBON?
The Duterte administration has zero tolerance for views and alternatives that contradict its policies and programs, including on the economy. Thus, it uses public resources not only to question the legitimacy of IBON but to apparently try to shut it down.
I’m Arnold Padilla, a Filipino activist, writer, and researcher.
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