May 25, 2013     Manila, Philippines
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Friday, February 8th, 2013

Groups belie claims that the Philippines is the ‘rising tiger’ of Asia

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL “Only through taking steps in building the domestic economy and ensuring social welfare intervention can joblessness and forced migration be truly addressed. Without these, the Philippine...

Monday, December 31st, 2012

Bleeding the supposed ‘bosses,’ the working masses, dry

By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – In 2012, the incomes of the Filipino working population shrunk further compared to the rising cost of living, their recorded productivity and, based on news reports, growing revenues of companies. Considering...

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Perception Economics: Two years of the Aquino administration

By SONNY AFRICA The administration is hard-pressed to provide similar glowing accounts of...

Friday, June 29th, 2012

Child labor, an offspring of ‘bankrupt employment, economic program’

By MARYA SALAMAT Child labor arises in the Philippines because of the government’s...

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Aquino government’s job generation failure traced to lack of industrialization plan

By MARYA SALAMAT The increase in underemployment rate from 18.8 percent...

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

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...

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

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...

Monday, April 20th, 2009

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...

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

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...

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

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...

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

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...

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