FROM THE MARGINS The future is Agriculture 4.0. Slowly but surely, the breakthroughs in technology that have transformed other industries is changing agriculture. Connectivity, mobile adoption, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies are transforming the whole agricultural value...
FROM THE MARGINS Last week, House Speaker Martin Romuldez vowed to pass by December the administration’s priority bills, including the Passive Income and Financial Intermediary Taxation Act (PIFITA), the last tranche of the government’s Comprehensive Tax Reform Program. The PIFITA is laudable...
PayMaya and Maya Bank officers, led by PayMaya Philippines Group President and Maya Co-Founder, Shailesh Baidwan (10 th from the left); PayMaya Philippines COO, Khurram Malik (11 th from the left); and Maya Business Head, Mar Lazaro (9 th from the left); recognized key partners that have championed...
FROM THE MARGINS Once touted as something of a miracle cure for global poverty, microfinance used to be a high-profile and generously-funded development intervention. In recent years, however, support for the sector has dwindled, with development finance institutions moving on to new disruptive...
FROM THE MARGINS JAIME ARISTOTLE B. ALIP, PHD Putting agriculture at the forefront of our development agenda is a good move on the part of President Marcos. His assumption of the post of Agriculture Secretary is an affirmation of the promise made during his presidential campaign to lower the price...
Procter & Gamble announces new commitments and shares progress on actions to strengthen equality and inclusion across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa Procter & Gamble has announced new commitments aimed toward advancing equality and inclusion across Asia Pacific, the Middle East,...
Insular Life (InLife) and leading mobile wallet GCash have vowed to make financial services more accessible to all Filipinos, especially for the unbanked and underbanked. During the formal launch of their partnership on Wednesday, March 9, the local insurer and the largest FinTech platform in the...
Presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. appeared to have no idea about senatorial aspirant Robin Padilla's inclusion in the official ticket of the BBM-Sara UniTeam. (Contributed photo) In an ambush interview after his proclamation rally in bailiwick Ilocos Norte on early Thursday...
Yuchengco-led Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation’s (RCBC) unique innovations and synergized collaborations have successfully pushed financial inclusion as it notes a five-digit growth in both transaction volume and value, through its digital platforms as of end-2021. DiskarTech, touted as the...
Open banking transforms the customer experience in ways that have never been before. Financial inclusion is rising. In 2017, 23 percent of Filipino adults had bank accounts. Fast forward to 2021, it jumped to 53 percent. The ideal is that people, regardless of net worth,...
Bless the children of Mindanao BEHIND THE SCENES Bullet-Laced Dreams filmmaker Tops Brugada with Lumad children A short documentary, which puts the struggle of Lumad children in the spotlight, won The UNICEF Prize at the recently concluded Japan Prize organized by public broadcaster NHK....
President Duterte has underscored the importance of promoting digital literacy to facilitate the inclusion of vulnerable groups in the digital economy amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte made this intervention during the 2021 APEC...
