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                    [Title] => Government lends P161 billion to microfinance clients
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The government in partnership with private financing institutions has extended more than P161 billion in loans to some 5.8 million Filipino microfinance clients and entrepreneurs since July 2004 to April this year, Malacañang said yesterday.
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                    [Title] => Poor folk granted loans
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                    [DatePublished] => 2008-06-03 00:00:00
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                    [Title] => Only 400,000 poor households have access to microfinancing
                    [Summary] => The poverty incidence in the Philippines has grown from 31.8 percent in 1997 to a record 34.20 percent at the start of the year, according to the National Anti Poverty Commission (NAPC), the Cabinet-level committee tasked by the Arroyo administration for poverty alleviation.


That can be translated into at least 5.2 Filipino households living below or straddling the poverty line. Of these number, only an estimated 400,000 households have been able to access financial assistance to cope with the difficult times.


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Government lends P161 billion to microfinance clients

By Paolo Romero | July 6, 2009 - 12:00am

The government in partnership with private financing institutions has extended more than P161 billion in loans to some 5.8 million Filipino microfinance clients and entrepreneurs since July 2004 to April this year,...

Business

Poor folk granted loans

By Paolo Romero | June 3, 2008 - 12:00am

Nation

Only 400,000 poor households have access to microfinancing

November 27, 2001 - 12:00am

The poverty incidence in the Philippines has grown from 31.8 percent in 1997 to a record 34.20 percent at the start of the year, according to the National Anti Poverty Commission (NAPC), the Cabinet-level committee...

Banking