Upper middle income country, what?
No amount of rosy figures churned out by the government and credit-rating institutions could erase the reality of the crisis faced by millions of Filipinos.
Upper middle income country, what?
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World Bank-funded project in Negros spells division, violence for farming communities
World Bank-funded project in Negros spells division, violence for farming communities
Under the SPLIT project funded by the World Bank, no actual new land distribution takes place. Former Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano said that there are still more than 500,000 hectares of agricultural land undistributed.
Inequity, iniquity amid rising income inequality
Inequity, iniquity amid rising income inequality
Acute income and economic inequality, the negative phenomenon spawned by neoliberal economics, continues to widen worldwide. Wealth gets concentrated, in scandalous scale, in the hands of the few super-rich, depriving billions of the poor all over the world...
Extreme poverty dips in developing nations
Extreme poverty dips in developing nations
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star As governments, economists and investors fret and wonder when the current global recession will end — with its record levels of unemployment and impoverishment in the US and Europe — the World Bank has issued...
World Bank funds project to address housing crisis as demolitions continue
World Bank funds project to address housing crisis as demolitions continue
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"The government has no right to call Filipinos squatters in their own country. It has the responsibility to provide its citizens with decent social housing and ensure that they have access to social services." – Kadamay
Progressive solons seek probe of irregularities in Judicial Reform Support project
Progressive solons seek probe of irregularities in Judicial Reform Support project
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The two representatives of Bayan Muna party are calling for investigations into the World Bank fund anomaly involving the Supreme Court. Reps. Teddy Casiño and Neri Colmenares have filed House Resolution 2049 to...
As World Bank president visits country: Think-tank says world bank policies,loans worsen poverty in the Philippines
As World Bank president visits country: Think-tank says world bank policies,loans worsen poverty in the Philippines
Press Release October 26, 2011 After over five decades of flawed policy advice and US$14.7-billion loans from the World Bank, the Philippines remains poor in every sector of the economy, according to independent think-tank IBON, as World Bank president Robert...
Urban poor group counters WB positive report on CCT
Urban poor group counters WB positive report on CCT
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap dismissed the recent report the World Bank (WB) released jointly with the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid) on the conditional cash transfer (CCT)...
Laguna Lake Groups Reject $10-M Loan from World Bank
Laguna Lake Groups Reject $10-M Loan from World Bank
Community groups working with the fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) and the Save Laguna Lake Movement (SLLM) have reacted in the negative to reports that the Aquino government has accepted a $ 10-million loan from World Bank in connection with Laguna Lake rehabilitation project.
Learn from Cuba, Says World Bank
Learn from Cuba, Says World Bank
By Jim Lobe InterPress Service (IPS) WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) - World Bank President James Wolfensohn Monday extolled the Communist government of President Fidel Castro for doing "a great job" in providing for the social welfare of the Cuban people. His remarks...
World Bank Corruption Ranking Should Widen Debate on Anti-corruption Strategies
World Bank Corruption Ranking Should Widen Debate on Anti-corruption Strategies
The World Bank, in its recently-released "Governance Matters 2006" report, gave the country a lower ranking in its control of corruption benchmark, falling from 50.5% in 1998 to 37.4% in 2005. BY IBON FOUNDATION Bulatlat.com The World Bank, in its recently-released...
Militant Groups Call for Price Control, Policy Reforms to Solve Price Spikes
Militant Groups Call for Price Control, Policy Reforms to Solve Price Spikes
The militant group Bayan rejected calls from government to give emergency powers to President Arroyo but recognizes the need for the government to control the prices of commodities. This call was echoed by the women’s group GABRIELA who called the current situation...
ODA Failed to Improve Lives — Think-tank
ODA Failed to Improve Lives — Think-tank
Even as the Philippine government and the World Bank (WB), entered into a new agreement to review operations and mechanisms in implementing development programs as an attempt to enhance the current set of “readiness filters” in the programming of development...
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