Philippines

Financing Social Protection Floors in South East Asia

2021-03-25

The Recommendation 202 on social protection floors (SPF), promoted by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and adopted in 2012, is intended to ensure essential health care and basic income security worldwide for children, people of working age who are unable to earn a sufficient income and the elderly. The SPF requires country members to develop a comprehensive social protection system including social security guarantees for the whole life cycle of citizens. However, social protection is very new to many grassroots organizations and proves to be complex in many levels.

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[Philippines] Multi-dimensional Vulnerabilities of Women Workers in the Informal Sector

2016-03-14

This action research conducted by EILER examines how women in the informal sector in two urban communities in Manila make the most of available resources in order to rise above their seemingly disadvantaged situation within the economy.

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Regional Round-up

2012-04-01

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No Economic and Job Growth in Mining Industry in the Philippines, Only Plunder Need to Run

2012-04-01

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Against Extractive Industries

2012-03-30

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Updates on the Philippine Call Centres

2010-09-01

Issue No : 76 July - September 2010

By Dr. Rene Ofreneo

The Philippines is Southeast Asia’s industrial sick man (barely any transformation since the 1970s) and agricultural failure (a major net importer of agricultural products since 1995). The country’s weak agro-industrial growth is the primary reason for the rapid expansion of the informal economy (employing as much as 2/3 of the labour force) and the country’s continuing dependence on the remittances of its 10 million or so migrant workers, roughly a tenth of the population.