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                    [Title] => JDV proposes Asian Micro-Finance Fund
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Former House speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. proposed the creation of an Asian Micro-Finance Fund and an Asian Anti-Poverty Fund at the Anti Poverty Summit in Kunming, China to help small entrepreneurs gain easier access to credit.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 158009 [Title] => De Venecia pushes for ‘100 years of peace’ [Summary] => Speaker Jose de Venecia Friday night asked representatives of 43 parliaments of East, Central and West Asia attending a conference in Chongqing, China to initiate "100 years of peace" to eradicate poverty and avert military confrontations in the world’s largest continent.

Speaking at the third general assembly of the Asian Parliaments for Peace (APP), De Venecia, a major advocate of Asian economic and political integration, said peace in this poverty-stricken region would create the Asian middle class, a major factor in the fight against poverty.
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