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Continue reading →: Amid Saudi attacks, no need for oil price hikes
Amid a looming oil crisis precipitated by the attacks on Saudi Arabian plants that effectively shut down 6% of global oil supply, oil companies in the Philippines can still afford not to raise prices. This is because they have overpriced domestic petroleum products to the tune of Php4.38 per liter…
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Continue reading →: 22 dahilan bakit dapat iboto si Neri Colmenares sa Senado
22. Para sa mga manggagawa, gaya ng wage hike at pagwawakas sa endo 21. Para sa mga magsasaka, gaya ng tunay na reporma sa lupa 20. Para sa senior citizens, gaya ng pagtaas ng SSS pension 19. Para sa mga kabataan, gaya ng sapat na badyet para sa edukasyon 18.…
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Continue reading →: Economy continues slowdown under Duterte
The gross domestic product (GDP) grew by just 5.6% in the first quarter of 2019. That’s the slowest quarterly growth in four years. Duterte’s economic managers are pinning the blame on the delayed passage of the 2019 national budget. What they do not say is that the slowdown this quarter…
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Continue reading →: Wage hikes, slowest under Duterte
(UPDATED May 1, 2019) Did you know that among all post-EDSA presidents, the minimum wage has increased at the slowest pace under Pres. Rodrigo Duterte? In his first three years in office, the minimum wage in NCR (non-agricultural rates and including allowance) has only increased by an average of 9.8…
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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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