Robert Siy

• Advisor at MoveAsOne Coalition

Problem: The Philippines has a massive public transport crisis and shortage that forces people to crowd and risk getting infected with COVID-19, especially with the new variants. The shortage has contributed to our largest economic recession since the Second World War-as workers and frontliners struggle to get to work. The transport shortage and la...

Move As One Coalition urges economic managers: Act now to stop transport inflation Given that transport is the number-two contributor to inflation in May 2022, the Move As One Coalition recommends a ten-point agenda to lower the costs of transport for Filipino consumers, and safeguard our health and economic recovery. The transport sector is in a...

The Philippines has a massive public transport shortage, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic and the decision to tighten public transport supply in 2020. This shortage impeded efforts to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus and contributed to the country's worst postwar recession, as non-home-based workers found it much harder to move and go to wo...

The 2022 budget should be used to fill a Php150-billion gap in investments in road-based public transport, pedestrian, and cycling infrastructure. This shift will address the massive shortage in transport supply made worse by the pandemic. An overwhelming majority of Filipinos across age, sex, education, geography, and socioeconomic class support t...

Move As One is a civil society coalition of more than 140 organizations and 77,000 individuals advocating for a safer, more humane, and inclusive transportation system in the Philippines. We are a group of transport workers, commuters, persons with disabilities, health care workers, cyclists, laborers, youth, transport economists, public policy res...

Investing in public transport will save lives and restart the economy. But the government's priority programs for road-based public transport receive near-zero funding under the proposed 2021 National Expenditure Program. We estimate that we will need P62 billion to fund these IATF-priority programs under the Department of Transportation’s (DOTr) 2...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, 1982. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 269-274). Vita. Microfiche. s

An intensive study and multidisciplinary analysis of an intricate yet rationally structured rural organization, the Zanjera, a type of water users' association found primarily in the northern Philippines. An attempt is made to explain the principles and elements of cooperative behaviour and participation which set the Zanjera apart from other rural...