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In 1997, the Philippine government privatized the operations of its publicly-owned water service provider for Metro Manila. The aim was to reduce government’s role in the provision of public services. Two decades later, however, the goals of Philippine water privatization continue to fall short (...)
On Dec. 22, 2016, President Duterte signed the General Appropriations Act (GAA) of 2017 with a special provision calling on Congress’ oversight committee on overseas development assistance “to conduct a debt audit to determine the legitimacy” of 20 government-contracted foreign loans. The audit is (...)
PRESS RELEASE
21 September 2016
No Thanks to the Dictator, The country Is Still Paying for Marcos’ misrule
MANILA, Philippines –On the occasion of the 44th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law, activist group Freedom from Debt Coalition issued a call for the nation not to forget that (...)
PRESS RELEASE
19 September 2016 FDC calls on PDU30 to prioritize debt audit, repeal of 40 year-old auto-debt payments MANILA, Philippines – Doves seemed to flock in Malacañang today as activist group Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) carried their demands for debt audit and repeal of (...)
DUTERTE’S BUDGET ALLOCATES P6.13B FOR QUESTIONABLE FOREIGN DEBTS
MANILA, Philippines – The Duterte administration’s proposed 2017 national budget has allocated P6.13 billion in foreign debt service for 13 fraudulent, wasteful or useless loans, the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) bared in a (...)
Dear Partners
Good day! The Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) launched an online petition to urge President Rodrigo Duterte and the members of the 17th Congress to repeal the Law on Automatic Appropriations for Debt Servicing and to conduct an Official Comprehensive Audit of all public debts. (...)
MANILA, Philippines – President Benigno Aquino III not only failed to curb the country’s poverty and debt burden. He turned out to be the biggest loan addict, and a total failure in addressing the Philippines’ entrapment in a cycle of debt dependence. The Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC), in a (...)
Korean Water now owns Angat Hydro Electric Power Plant and it now controls water distribution for the Bulacan Bulk Water System.
More than four years after the filing of petitions before the Supreme Court in 2010, the Court decided in favor of the foreign-owned Korea Water Resources (...)
Poverty eases little from 2006 to 2012, becomes harder to escape - NSCB
MANILA – Poverty incidence in the Philippines has eased little over the last seven years, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) said on Tuesday, adding that the main difference between being poor last year and (...)
Press Release June 27, 2012 PALEA
Members of the Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) and the Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) picketed this morning the Central Bank headquarters and office of the Department of Finance at Roxas Boulevard in Manila in a protest against the controversial (...)
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine government’s decision to extend a US$1-billion loan to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to supplement the Fund’s Financial Transaction Plan (FTP) of $456 billion to contain the economic crisis in Europe is an “arrogant pretension of a country very much in (...)
FDC President Ricardo ReyesNews from the G-20 Meeting at Lagos, Mexico last June 18-19 carried an announcement from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) through IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde that the Philippines is among the twenty countries which pledged to increase the IMF fund to (...)
Kampanya para sa Makataong Pamumuhay (KAMP) is a broad, multi-sectoral, inclusive network that promotes social justice through transformative social protection. Our immediate demands are the deprivatisation and decommodification of essential services so that people will enjoy guaranteed jobs (...)
This Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) position paper on the Crisis and Budget was submitted to the House of Representatives. This paper and related articles can be found at www.fdc.ph
Position Paper on the Proposed 2009 National Government Budget Submitted to the House of Representatives 06 (...)
MANILA, Philippines—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo seems everywhere these days distributing rice, money, scholarships, and other forms of assistance to the poor. She calls these “katas ng VAT” (“juice from value-added tax”), a cynical appropriation of the phrase “katas ng Saudi” that adorns (...)
By: Water Campaign Freedom from Debt Coalition 05 December 2007
FDC to MWSS-RO: Stop Manila Water’s rate hike petition
The Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) today strongly urged the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage Services- Regulatory Office (MWSS-RO) to stop the P14 per cubic meter rate (...)
Dear friends.
Please find attached FDC submission last Dec 4 to MWSS Regulatory Office (RO) on Manila Water’s petition for rate hike, for RO approval in December and implementation Jan 2008.
Violeta Corral, PSIRU-Asia (www.psiru.org)
EXCERPTS:
We, from the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC), (...)
Official poverty statistics in the Philippines is a sham because it fails to disclose the real state of poverty in the Philippines, even consigning some sectors into non-existence, the Philippine coalition of the global anti-poverty alliance Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) said. (...)
NOTE: There is no mention of opposition to the private management or residents concerns with the new proposal. This flies in the face of the rates that were set at the signing of the contract that was far lower what the water rates are today.
Maj, FWW
MANILA, Philippines — Manila Water Co. (...)
In order to improve its dismal competitiveness performance, the government must revise its policy on debt service and re-channel the funds to the delivery of basic social and economic services, according to an advocacy group.
The Freedom from Debt Coalition yesterday highlighted the result of (...)
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