PREPARATIONS for the 2010 elections and the up-and-coming economic crisis have given civil society and other cause-oriented groups more reason to keep a tight watch over the 2009 budget process to ensure judicious spending of the people’s money. The...

THE proposed P1.415-trillion national budget for 2009, once ratified, is going to be the biggest amount allocated for government in the country’s fiscal history. Compared to this year’s P1.227-trillion budget, the amount represents a 15-percent...