IBON Birdtalk 2025 tackles poverty, ill-governance, and what can be done

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PRESS RELEASE: The IBON 2025 Yearstarter Birdtalk will be held on January 23, from 1 pm to 4 pm, at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

This is a press release from IBON Foundation.

In the run-up to the 2025 midterm elections, the Filipino people are confronted with greater economic challenges and political turmoil. The Marcos administration cites encouraging statistics and welfare interventions. It also counterposes itself to the previous Duterte government as a champion of human rights, democracy and sovereignty, and climate justice.

Yet after two and a half years in office, what are the real conditions of ordinary Filipinos in terms of the things that really matter – joblessness, poverty and inequality? Who are the real beneficiaries of governance today? What are the barriers and opportunities to moving forward amid domestic distress and greater geopolitical contradictions?

These will be discussed during the IBON Birdtalk 2025 Yearstarter, IBON’s semi-annual national situationer, which will be held on Thursday, January 23, at the Institute of Biology Auditorium, National Science Complex, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, from 1 pm to 4 pm.

Register here to join.

A P120-registration fee is required upon entrance.

IBON is a socio-economic research, information, education and advocacy institution that tackles economic issues from the perspective of the Filipino people in a popular manner. It campaigns for People Economics, or an economy for the many, as an alternative to the long-standing reality of the Philippine economy being elitist and market-oriented.