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Stats on the state of the regions:Land, population, population density
THE PHILIPPINES has a total land area of about 300,000 square kilometers (sq km).This is according to the cadastral survey and estimated land areas certified and provided to the Department of Budget...
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Stats on the state of the regions: Hubs of wealth, ponds of poverty
THE POOR abound in this country — Filipinos who cannot earn or raise the minimum income to meet the basic food and non-food requirements. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) clusters them among...
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Stats on the state of the regions:A tricky tug of war for IRA, revenues
ONLY THREE of the proposed 18 federated regions have revenue collections larger than the fund transfers that they are getting from the national government in terms of Internal Revenue Allotment or...
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Stats on the state of the regions: Only half of all Pinoys are voters
WE ARE a nation of more than a hundred million people, but as of 2016, only one in every two Filipinos had registered as voters and could be allowed to participate in elections. If the pitch to shift...
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Stats on the state of the regions: Who will rule? Send in the clans
A “SELF-EXECUTING” ban on political dynasties is supposedly one of the crown jewels of the draft constitution for the pitch to shift to a federal system of government. It is paired with a proposed ban...
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State of the PH in 2018: Catching crooks, averting corruption
WHAT policy and action reforms can enhance and sustain the campaign against crooks and corruption under the Duterte administration?What follows is the speech of Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales,...
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State of the PH in 2018: The Insulted Economy
WHAT is the true state of the economy, and the status of economic and policy reforms, under two years of the Duterte administration? What follows is the presentation, by text and graphics, of Dr....
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State of the PH in 2018: Perils, Pitfalls of Shifting to Federalism
IS the proposed shift to federalism “a Trojan horse to stay in power” for President Duterte and his political allies?What follows is the speech of Atty. Christian S. Monsod, former Commission on...
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State of the PH in 2018: Why Must We Live Within the Truth?
WHAT has happened to civil and political rights, and the rule of law, under two years of the Duterte administration? What follows is the speech of Atty. Jose Manuel I. Diokno, dean of De La Salle...
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State of the PH in 2018: Our jails are now world’s most congested
THE WAR on drugs and the mass arrest of the loiterers and the shirtless under the Duterte administration have triggered a monstrous humanitarian crisis: Philippine jails and detention centers are now...
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Duterte’s 3rd: What The People Would Have Wanted to Hear
A FORTNIGHT AGO, a policy forum on the state of “Democracy and Governance in the Philippines: Deficit, Surplus, and Unfinished Business” was conducted by the PCIJ, in partnership with the Office of...
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The Tripoli Agreement of 1976: Lessons, impact on the Mindanao peace process
A FORTNIGHT AGO on July 27, 2018, President Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11054 or the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) that was finalized by the Senate and the House of Representatives bicameral...
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The PowerChina puzzle: Newly registered ‘domestic firm’ bids for P17-B Marawi...
LAST JULY 2, after being declared ineligible to bid for the multibillion-peso contract to rebuild Marawi City’s conflict zone or “most affected area (MAA),” a consortium led by a China state-owned...
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Bangon Marawi? Rush to seal deals locked in delay, confusion, funds lack
http://pcij.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marawi-Rehab-Delays_PCIJ.mp4SINCE last May, the task force leading the government’s efforts to rebuild the Islamic City of Marawi in Lanao del Sur has been...
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DPWH under Duterte: Corruption, politics, slippage mar many projects
IN THE TWO years since he assumed office and promised to usher in a “golden age of infrastructure”, President Rodrigo R. Duterte has put money where his mouth is. Boasting that, by his term’s end in...
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Top 10 contractors under DU30 runrecord of fraud, delays, blacklisting
THREE HAD been suspended or blacklisted, including one for submitting fake tax clearance certificates. One had its corporate registration revoked. The officers of four others are facing trial for...
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THE GOVERNMENT awards a contractor-bidder a contract if its bid amount has been evaluated and found to be the “lowest calculated bid.” The bid will be subjected next to post-qualification, which...
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Editor’s Note: PCIJ’s multi-part report on civil works projects under the Duterte Administration is the composite work of seven PCIJ editors and reporters, and three student interns, over the last...
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Davao Region most favored; othersget cuts, token hike in infra budgets
IT’S AS GOOD as it gets for Davao Region, home and bailiwick of President Rodrigo R. Duterte. And by the government’s own data, it’s as bad as it gets for many other regions of the country in terms of...
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Did he help firms of Dad, half-brod? Unfair! Prove it, I’ll resign – Bong Go
GOBATO? Just can’t miss this huge tarpaulin on a major road in Davao City. PCIJ Photo by John Reiner Antiquerra SIXTEEN TIMES across a two-hour interview he uttered the word “unfair.”At one point, he...
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