By SONNY AFRICA
The administration is hard-pressed to provide similar glowing accounts of sustainable development on the ground because there are still no such gains to speak of.
Perception Economics: Two years of the Aquino administration
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Child labor, an offspring of ‘bankrupt employment, economic program’
By MARYA SALAMAT
Child labor arises in the Philippines because of the government’s failure in generating decent jobs. – KMU
Aquino government’s job generation failure traced to lack of industrialization plan
By MARYA SALAMAT
The increase in underemployment rate from 18.8 percent in 2010 to 19.3 percent in 2011 – which translates to more than 186,000 – shows that it is low-quality jobs which account for the slight increase in employment under Aquino.
To be idle and hungry
A jobless counts himself part of the vast army of dispossessed worldwide. He belongs to one in three workers globally either unemployed or living in poverty. In this country, his testimony appears to show unrealized promises made by President Benigno Aquino III to address unemployment. By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today Reposted by Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY,…
Economic Growth Remains Unstable, Unable to Create Jobs
Bulatlat.com The 7.9% growth in gross domestic product (GDP) is welcome at least for appearing to be mainly driven by domestic investors, according to research group IBON. Net foreign capital inflows in the first five months of 2010 were earlier reported to be 68% lower than in the same period last year. However, the group…
Over 18,000 Lose Jobs in Country’s Largest Export-Processing Zone
When Bulatlat last visited Arnold Redondo, which was early last February, he still had his job as a production operator at Eighttech Manufacturing Corporation, one of the companies operating at the Cavite Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) which is the largest export-processing zone in the country – though he and his co-workers had been working for…
Of Togas, Jobs, and the Future
Picture this: you, in your toga, walking along the long aisle, waiting for your name to be called, excited to get hold of that diploma, or medal (if you are an honor student), until that final moment came when you could release a sigh of relief because you’re done with college. But after the wild…
DOLE Urged To Go Beyond ‘Band-Aid Solutions’
BY BULATLAT A party-list lawmaker said the government must go beyond its ‘band-aid solutions’ to the economic crisis. Anakpawis Representative said the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) package of solutions consists only of ‘band-aid solutions’ and does not correspond to the intense impacts of the economic crisis on locally-employed and overseas Filipino workers. Solutions…
Despite P330-B Stimulus Package, Job Losses to Hit Around 1.2 M in 2009
Experts have described the recession as a “supercrisis”, which could be long and deep. Its impact on poor and underdeveloped economies like the Philippines is just starting to unfold. Obviously, emergency employment through a stimulus package as well as labor flexibilization and export will not do the trick. A total overhaul of the economy’s orientation…
10.7 M Jobless Filipinos in 2008: Record Joblessness Among Arroyo Government’s Greatest Failures
The Philippines’ record-high unemployment is considered among the greatest failures of the Arroyo administration and is seen to even worsen this year. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat The Philippines’ record-high unemployment is considered among the greatest failures of the Arroyo administration and is seen to even worsen this year. Estimates made by IBON put…
Happy But Difficult Times Ahead for New Graduates
This is a happy time for graduates. At last, they have completed their grueling four years in college. Throwing their mortars in the air, they exclaim, “At last, the difficult times are over.” But is it? BY JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 12, April 27-May 3, 2008 Fresh graduates usually rest for…