Focus Policy Review 2019: “Critical Junction: Derailing or Accelerating the Dictatorship Express”
Focus Policy Review on the Progressive Agenda in the 2019 Elections and Beyond This issue of the...
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Author (Category): Walden Bello
Facts are stubborn things
By Walden Bello*
My position on the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program, which was posted on the Philippine Daily Inquirer website, elicited a lot of comment, most of it positive, some negative. Among the responses was one from Rep. Teddy Casino of Bayan Muna who rejects CCTs. Unfortunately, his intervention, for the most part, failed to engage the substantive issues I raised and turned instead into a highly charged invective against my “opportunism.”
Read MoreNew Economics for a New Administration
by Walden Bello*The dominant feature of the Arroyo administration was pervasive corruption, but its most destructive legacy in the long term will probably be its policy failures. The ascent to power of a new president,...
Read MoreIs Congress worth running for?
By Akbayan! Representative Walden Bello from Inquirer.net Is Congress worth running for? As someone that comes from civil society, I am often asked this question. I do not blame people for being so cynical. After a year in the...
Read MoreDoes corruption create poverty?
By Walden Bello* From Common Dreams, April 23, 2010 The issue of corruption is a very resonant one in developing countries. In the Philippines, for instance, the slogan of the coalition that is likely to win the 2010...
Read MoreHow Mona Lisa died
Walden Bello* at Inquirer.net REPRESENTATIVE Edcel Lagman of Albay has a term for legislative measures that gain approval in a congressional committee yet never make it to a full floor debate owing to one reason or other. He...
Read MorePhilippines declares state of emergency after 57 people killed in politically-linked massacre
The death toll from the Philippines’ worst politically-linked massacre has risen to fifty-seven. The victims were abducted as they were travelling to nominate an opposition candidate for governor in upcoming elections.The dead...
Read MoreThe migrant condition
by Walden Bello* (Speech delivered at the People’s Global Action Conference during the Global Forum for Migration and Development, Athens, Greece, Nov. 1, 2009.) The migrant worker experience is one that is increasingly...
Read MorePolitics failed our constitution
by Jenina Joy Chavez, Julie delos Reyes, Herbert Docena, Aya Fabros, Mary Lou Malig, Mary Ann Manahan, Cathy Ordona, Qiqo Punzalan Simbol, Joseph Purugganan, Lourdes Torres and Walden Bello/ Focus on the Global South Philippines...
Read MoreAfterthoughts : CARPER : latest chapter in agri reform battle
By Walden Bello originally posted on Inquirer.net When I joined the House of Representatives a few weeks ago, I did not expect to be immediately thrust into heated debates on what have probably been the two most controversial...
Read MoreOn quarantining the speaker and other members of the Las Vegas expedition –
On Quarantining the Speaker and other Members of the Las Vegas Expedition and other Measures to Deal with Swine Flu by Representative Walden Bello Privileged Speech, May 5, 2009 Philippine House of Representative I rise on a...
Read MoreHow to manufacture a global food crisis : lessons from the World Bank, IMF, and WTO
How “free trade” is destroying Third World agriculture-and who’s fighting back (This article appears in the June 2, 2008, edition of The Nation [New York]. It is being reprinted with permission from The...
Read MoreMicrocredit, macro problems
[Español ] Walden Bello* [Published on Sunday, October 15, 2006, by The Nation. ] The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, regarded as the father of microcredit, comes at a time when microcredit has become...
Read MoreThe rise of the relief and reconstruction complex
By Walden Bello* (This article first apeared in the Journal of International Affairs, Spring/Summer 2006, vol. 59, no. 2. It is published here with permission.) Massive infrastructure damage and great social dislocation have...
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