by Sonny Africa The Philippine economy is slowing amid a global economy in a new period of uncertainty, unpredictability and volatility. The country’s economic policymaking however remains stuck in an imaginary world of efficient free markets, beneficial globalization and humane capitalism. A clearer view of where the world is today compels new economics more than…
Research group IBON said that the second year of slowing growth under the Duterte administration should be enough to jolt it out of its complacency and denial. The downturn in the last two years and the poor prospects in the year to come should be a wake-up call to start to undertake the difficult but…
Filipino commuters have to contend with the sorry state of public transport every day. By GI MORI The post Inside a bus appeared first on Bulatlat.
“There are technological solutions it could implement to prevent data corruption.” By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) remains accountable to any burden or risk to the passport holders arising from the passport data mess. In a message emailed to Bulatlat, IT specialist Angel Averia described the latest twist in…
(Photo by Ruth Lumibao/Bulatlat) Sy may indeed be a hardworking man. But so are his conglomerate’s employees. With Sy’s determined use of neoliberal policies such as contractualization, the fruits of tens of thousands of his employees’ hard work go largely to his companies’ profits. Here lies the unheralded side of his Forbes-topping net worth, the…
Members of the AHW-PL with their nominees outside the Comelec office last January 23 denouncing their group’s disqualification. (Contributed photo.) The recent disqualification of Aksyon Health Workers Party-List clearly leads us to believe that genuine party-lists, even with a track record of its initiators to boot and members belonging to the marginalized and underrepresented sector,…
Member of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) light candles as countdown to the tenth year of the Ampatuan Massacre, Jan. 23, 2019 at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani. (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / Bulatlat) By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA —While many netizens posted on Facebook two pictures of themselves…