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Filipinos will remain vulnerable and trapped in a cycle of economic insecurity. Piecemeal measures cannot substitute for comprehensive solutions.

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Successive administrations have fixated on attracting foreign investments or maximizing profits for local and foreign big business instead of developing domestic agriculture and Filipino industry.

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These problems arise from the country’s chronically weak economic foundations due to government neglect, which has left the agriculture and manufacturing sectors at their lowest shares of the economy in over seven decades.

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The lack of decent employment, low wages, and persistent poverty make perennially rising prices a permanent burden on millions of Filipinos.

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Put another way, prices today still include the impact of record inflation in 2023 aside from additional increases due to inflation since then until the recent 0.9% inflation.

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The less-than-1% inflation indicates slower price hikes but does not mean that prices in general went down. The CPI in July 2025 is still 5.2% higher than in January 2023, when inflation hit an unprecedented 8.7% under the Marcos administration.

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