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Contact Person: James Miraflor, National Spokesperson @ 0927-613-2068 Val De Guzman, Media Liason @ 0919-965-7509
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SANLAKAS is a nationwide multi-sectoral organization established in 1994 to protect and advance the rights and welfare of the Filipino masses through their involvement in the mass movement. In 1998, SANLAKAS has been engaged in the legislative struggle as a Party-List Organization representing the marginalized sectors in Philippine Congress, articulating their demands and perspectives.
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Exclusive Growth Policies such as the two-tiered wage policy and demolition plan show that the 6.6% growth is exclusive growth growth that is biased to capital owners. This explains why despite branding the Philippines a new breakout nation, extreme income poverty continues to exist, Miraflor said. Miraflor also complained that inequality in the Philippines is worse than our Southeast Asian neighbors, with our Gini coefficient pegged at 0.448 compared to Thailands 0.425, Indonesias 0.394, Malaysias 0.379, and Vietnams 0.378, quoting investment adviser Peter Wallace. Gini coefficient, which is a number between 0 and 1, is a measure of inequality based on the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES). A value closer to zero indicates a more equal society. The Dragon Year of 2012, while a lucky year for business, is another unlucky one for urban and farm workers, with SWS survey pointing to an 1.4 million increase in self-rated poverty amid the jobless rate increasing from 6.4% to 6.8% in 2012, Miraflor said. Equality Targets Miraflor asked the Economic Planning Chief Arsenio Baliscan to set equality targets on top of annual growth targets, saying that this will ensure that the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) will be on-track on its inclusive growth goals. NEDA should place its money where its mouth is. We suggest that it sets a clear target on reducing the Gini coefficient, and give us a time frame, Miraflor said. Miraflor said that unlike growth targets which is primarily determined by private sector activity, equality targets are more normative and government-driven. It seems that Filipinos had been short-changed in 2012. This should not be the case for 2013. Our reform package, plus equality targets for NEDA, is a good step to prevent a repeat of exclusive growth, Miraflor said. False Prophet of Boom Sanlakas also minced no words against the World Bank, which has recently touted the Philippines as a Rising Tiger. Since 1957, the World Bank has been touting the Philippines as an economy on the verge of takeoff. It touted the Philippines as such when it pushed the Marcos dictatorship to structural adjustments in the 1970s, and when it supported the neoliberal policies of the Ramos administration in the 1990s, Miraflor said. Miraflor said that structural adjustments and neoliberal reforms caused the Philippines to lag behind its Asian neighbors like Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea, which has industrialized through state-driven development programs that strongly regulated and directed the market. World Bank has always been a false prophet of boom, despite contributing to the Philippines economic demise, Miraflor concluded.
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