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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.
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Continue reading →: Oil firms overpriced gasoline by Php3.48 per liter in 2018; diesel by Php1.48
(Photo: Novinite.com) After a series of oil price cuts that started from mid-October 2018 up to the first week of the new year, domestic pump prices have begun to climb up again. The recent increases are due to the combined impact of rising global oil prices and of the second tranche…
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Continue reading →: PH rice import dependence rising amid weakening global production
Rice import liberalization harms both the consumers and rice farmers, and only the foreign and domestic private traders reap the benefits.
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Continue reading →: How to bring down oil prices by as much as Php10 per liter and why it is justifiable
The Duterte administration can afford to forego additional windfall oil tax revenues, if only to protect the public from further taking a hit from escalating cost of living.
I’m Arnold Padilla, a Filipino activist, writer, and researcher.
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