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Category: Trade and Investment

Needed: A Bold Program to Address the Crisis of the Severely Indebted Developing Countries

David Malpass, President of the World Bank, and Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, at the IMF-World Bank Spring 2022 Meeting. Both institutions have been singularly bereft of ideas on how to deal with the developing country debt problem that is about to explode. (World Bank photo)

Needed: A Bold Program to Address the Crisis of the Severely Indebted Developing Countries

By Walden Bello* As governments converge on Washington for the International Monetary Fund...

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Challenges and Prospects  for Social Justice within Government’s economic agenda

Caption: Members of iDefend presenting key issues and recommendations at a CSO side event during the 4th cycle of UPR if the Philippines. 10 November 2022. Geneva. Photo by Neca Reyes of Lilak.

Challenges and Prospects for Social Justice within Government’s economic agenda

By Joseph Purugganan, Focus on the Global South* As Social Justice and human rights activists we...

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Trade Justice Pilipinas: We are locked-in to obligations under RCEP. While withdrawal is possible, not so easily done!

Senate President Miguel Zubiri, main sponsor of Senate Resolution of Concurrence in RCEP issued statements to media that the country can withdraw from RCEP if an influx of imports occurs as a result of the agreement. Photo from Senate PRIB

Trade Justice Pilipinas: We are locked-in to obligations under RCEP. While withdrawal is possible, not so easily done!

Trade Justice Pilipinas’s reaction to Sen. Zubiri’s statements about possibility of PH withdrawal...

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TRADE JUSTICE PILIPINAS Statement: The struggle against trade liberalization continues

Senator Risa Hontiveros interpellating the sponsors of the RCEP concurrence resolution at plenary debates in the Senate. Sen. Hontiveros was the only Senator who voted against Senate concurrence in RCEP. 21 February 2023. Photo from Sen. Hontiveros’ Facebook page.

TRADE JUSTICE PILIPINAS Statement: The struggle against trade liberalization continues

STATEMENT OF TRADE JUSTICE PILIPINAS ON THE SENATE CONCURRENCE IN RCEP The struggle against trade...

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MEDIA ADVISORY: FARMERS DECRY RUSH TO RATIFY RCEP; VOW TO CONTINUE FIGHT AGAINST LIBERALIZATION POLICIES THAT HAVE DECIMATED PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE

Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri delivered his sponsorship speech of Senate Resolution concurring in the ratification of RCEP. 15 February 2023. (Photo from Senate PRIB)

MEDIA ADVISORY: FARMERS DECRY RUSH TO RATIFY RCEP; VOW TO CONTINUE FIGHT AGAINST LIBERALIZATION POLICIES THAT HAVE DECIMATED PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE

  17 February 2023 MEDIA ADVISORY FARMERS DECRY RUSH TO RATIFY RCEP; VOW TO CONTINUE FIGHT...

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Joint Statement of Agri stakeholders and Trade Justice Advocates: NO TO RCEP! DON’T MAKE PHL AN “UKAY-UKAY” REPUBLIC!

Broad coalition of agriculture stakeholders and trade justice advocates held a pressconference this morning to urge the Senate to reject RCEP! 1 February 2023, Quezon City. Photo by Joseph Purugganan.

Joint Statement of Agri stakeholders and Trade Justice Advocates: NO TO RCEP! DON’T MAKE PHL AN “UKAY-UKAY” REPUBLIC!

Last November 2021, during the 18th Congress, various farmers, fishers, workers, civil society and...

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