MANILA — One of the pressing issues that the Aquino administration faces is the widening rich-poor gap in the country, said research group IBON.
The income gap in the latest 2006 government data shows that the share of the top 10% families in the income pie was even higher at 36% than the 35% share of the bottom 70% families. In …

Ibon urged President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, who as Tarlac representative voted against the EPIRA in 2001, to take steps in repealing the “pro-corporation law.”

Amid calls for additional revenue measures to address the country’s budget deficit, Ibon Foundation has called on the new administration to look into alternative fiscal solutions instead of resorting to new taxes.

OIL CRISIS   Amid the uproar over the Malaca�ang-imposed oil price ceiling, Executive Order (EO) 389 is apparently a mere government public relations gimmick, according to Ibon Foundation.

POLITICS   As administration allies push for amendments of economic provisions in the Constitution, research group IBON Foundation says that the resolution seeking to allow corporations to own land and land-based resources in the Philippines are based on an outmoded ideology which believes that liberalizing the economy to greater foreign investment will lead to development.

POLITICS   Majority of Filipinos do not favor amendments to the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution, according to the latest nationwide survey conducted by research group IBON Foundation, Inc.

POLITICS   Majority of respondents of the latest IBON nationwide survey said that they were aware of current moves to change the Charter. Of these respondents, 67% believes that term extension is behind the proposals to amend the Constitution.

The Philippines� record-high unemployment is considered among the greatest failures of the Arroyo administration and is seen to even worsen this year, according to research group Ibon Foundation.

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