Niceto Poblador
INQUIRER.net

ENTREPRENEURSHIP HAS long been regarded as an essential ingredient of economic development, especially in emerging markets. I fully agree. This observation is especially true in today’s innovation-driven “new economy.”

But I have some misgivings about certain… Read the rest

Manila Times

Microsoft Philippines announced the availability of NGO Connection, an online resource specifically for nongovernment organizations (NGOs) around the globe—designed to help the NGOs to be equipped in various aspects of management, marketing and other critical tools for development… Read the rest

Chupsie Medina
INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines — Next to having your own company website, the “in” thing now is to be part of an SME business networking site, a take-off from successful social networking sites like Facebook.com, Friendster.com, MySpace.com, Multiply.com,… Read the rest

GO NEGOSYO team
Philippine Star

Cecilia Cañalita knows from experience how harsh life can be. With the death of her mother at an early age and with eight other siblings, young Cecilia worked in the farm and sold goods… Read the rest

Fel V. Maragay
Manila Standard

Small entrepreneurs can now easily locate and communicate with government agencies that provide micro-financing for their business ventures, thanks to the wonders of text messaging.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday pushed the green button… Read the rest

Mike Frialde
Philippine Star

The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday upheld the constitutionality of a provision of Republic Act 9257 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2003 giving senior citizens a 20 percent discount in the purchase of medicine.… Read the rest

By Manuel T. Cayon
Reporter

DAVAO CITY-Seven of Mindanao’s poor provinces crowd the list of 10 poorest provinces in the country, underpinning the slow development work or lack of attention to uplift the South.

The 2003 Official Poverty Statistics,… Read the rest

Armando Bartolome
Manila Times

It could happen to anyone. You see an ad for a franchise, contact the company and, soon you are a franchisee! All goes well, then one day you realize your franchise business is failing and… Read the rest

Jefferson Antiporda
The Manila Times

THE Bayanihan Program of the government has generated some P58.5 million in savings since it started its operations in February 2003.

The savings were realized by the 4,436 Bayanihan centers organized in 622 local… Read the rest

Alex V. Pal
Inquirer

DUMAGUETE CITY—A program designed to help debt-trapped provincial employees by buying out their loans from high-charging lending institutions and giving them lower interest rates through a cooperative, is failing.

This is because the employees went… Read the rest