Aspiring to ‘mining country’ status will throw RP into deeper poverty – Kalikasan

An environmentalist group today chided Philippine Environment Secretary Lito Atienza for celebrating the continuing flow of foreign mining projects into the country during the Asia Mining Congress in Singapore last week, warning that most developing countries which have pursued the path of mining liberalization have only ended up with higher poverty rates and devastated ecologies.

Obsession over fiscal balance behind gov’t proposal to increase NFA prices – Ibon

The government’s obsession with balancing the budget to satisfy its creditors is behind the proposal to increase National Food Authority (NFA) rice prices, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation.