OUR latest report looks at what should be a positive impact of infrastructure projects on poverty alleviation initiatives of the government. Sadly, this report authored by Karol Ilagan, PCIJ writer-researcher, reveals that in five of the 10 provinces...

Our latest offering is a two-part report on how politics drive the award of public-works contracts. The first part written by senior journalist Tita C. Valderama, PCIJ training director, reveals how two sons in Congress of President Gloria Macapagal...

(First of two parts) SHE has been president for the last seven years, but Gloria Macapagal Arroyo could also be called “queen” -– queen of roads, that is.  Arroyo seemed so obsessed with roads that her first budget secretary, Emilia T....

OUR latest story reveals that the four contractors debarred by the World Bank anti-corruption unit, the Department of Institutional Integrity (INT), had received among the biggest contracts, by value, awarded by the Department of Public Works and...

AS a sidebar to our story on the conflicting findings by the World Bank Sanctions Board and the Department of Public Works and Highways into the alleged collusion and overpricing among contractors in the National Road Improvement and Management Project...

OUR latest report tackles why and how the World Bank Sanctions Board and the Department of Public Works and Highways reached starkly different conclusions in their separate investigations into the alleged collusion and overpricing among contractors in 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...