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PlantersBank offers financial aid to micro-entrepreneurs

By Ehda Dagooc | August 12, 2006 - 12:00am

Micro-entrepreneurs could now avail of a decent financial assistance, with lower interest rates, as the Planters Development Bank (Plantersbank) enters into providing financial help to this sector.

Freeman Cebu Business

Development banking revisited

By Jesus Tambunting | June 10, 2002 - 12:00am

The Philippine economy depends heavily on small- and medium-sized enterprises, which account for some 90% of all businesses, contribute about 25% to the gross national product and provide jobs to over half of the...

Business As Usual

BSP supports microfinancing

November 27, 2001 - 12:00am

Responding to the challenge of poverty alleviation, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has established a special unit for microfinance. "We envision this unit as a vehicle for mobilizing and administering...

Banking