RAMDAM NA RAMDAM ANG KAGUTUMAN AT KAHIRAPAN: ISULONG ANG KATIYAKAN SA PAGKAIN AT LIKAS-KAYANG KAUNLARAN Philippine NGO Coalition for Food Security & Fair Trade (PNLC) “Ramdam ang Kaularan” is the slogan that has been repeatedly proclaimed by the government to Filipinos. But the reality says otherwise.  Read More

DEVELOPING LOCAL ECONOMIES
SOME BASIC CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES USEFUL IN DESIGNING AND FOCUSING OUR ECONOMIC PROGRAM, What constitutes an economy? Economics is the branch of social science that deals with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management. Scarcity is central to the study of economics. Economic analysis examines how people choose to use limited or scarce resources in an attempt to satisfy their unlimited needs and wants in a very finite world.  Read More

TIME TO DISMANTLE THE ROOTS OF EVIL A Citizens’ Report on Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the Philippines, Civil society organizations have come together to an Alternative People’s Development Forum in Quezon City on the eve of the Department of Finance and World Bank-sponsored Philippine Development Forum that will discuss... Read More

Farmers' Group prod Congress to enact CARP Extension with Reforms Bill, Hundreds of farmers and advocates belonging to the Reform CARP Movement (RCM), a broad coalition calling for the extension and reform of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), held a picket-rally last Wednesday at the House of Representatives during the House Committee on Agrarian Reform's public hearing on proposed bills to extend the agrarian reform program. Read More