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...

WHILE senators are still bitterly locking horns whether or not to conduct an investigation on the issue of "double appropriations" in the 2008 national budget, former budget secretary Emilia Boncodin would like to give those involved in the recent...

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...