Women's participation in disaster relief and recovery.
Natural Disasters: A Growing Development Challenge for Poor Women and Their Communities Disasters destroy lives, disrupt the social, economic, and political fabric of communities, and can erase decades of development gains, sometimes in a matter of minutes. (1) Today, despite increased investments and advances in hazard-management technology,...

Women's participation in disaster relief and recovery.
Natural Disasters: A Growing Development Challenge for Poor Women and Their Communities Disasters destroy lives, disrupt the social, economic, and political fabric of communities, and can erase decades of development gains, sometimes in a matter of minutes. (1) Today, despite increased investments and advances in hazard-management technology,...

WB mulls $ 250-M yearly policy loans.
Byline: LEE C. CHIPONGIAN The World Bank is prepared to provide the National Government an annual Development Policy Loan of $250 million beginning in 2007, the bank's highest official to the Philippines said yesterday. "It's a loan that will be available to the Philippines immediately,"...

DBP eyed as farm funds conduit.
Byline: REY ANTHONY CHIU TAGBILARAN CITY -- The government, through the Department of Agriculture (DA), is eyeing state-owned Land Bank of the Philippines (Landbank) and Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) as conduits for P2 billion in agriculture modernization funds, Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap said recently. ...

Swift action on bank rob cases urged.
Byline: EDMER F. PANESA Catanduanes Rep. Joseph Santiago yesterday urged authorities to act swiftly on bank robbery cases in the wake of a report by the Philippine National Police (PNP) that robbery gangs looted some P27.5 million from 18 banks attacked last year. "Securely established...

P/$ rate closes at P49.015 to $ 1.
The peso rate closed slightly higher at P49.015 to the US dollar yesterday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines from P49.030 the previous day. The weighted average rate depreciated to P49.018 from P49.000. Total volume amounted to $ 472 million. Banks'...

Business Options; A proposed research on the supply side of SME finance.
Byline: Benel P. Lagua Access to credit of small and medium enterprises has been a major concern of many authors and policy makers. We find abundant literature showing evidence that SMEs experience constraints in accessing finance. Though some firms may use their retained earnings in their finances,...

BSP to pay $ 700-M foreign debt.
Byline: LEE C. CHIPONGIAN The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas will pay $ 600-$ 700 million maturing foreign loans this year. The central bank has a healthy foreign exchange reserves of $ 23 billion and will likely tap into their own dollar stock to pay for...

MART1 benchmark given to PDEX.
Byline: FIL C. SIONIL The Money Market Association of the Philippines (MART), after trepidations and hesitations, has finally gave in and transferred MART1 platform to the Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corporation (PDEX). The transfer was precipitated by an order from the regulators to the Bankers...

P/$ rate closes at P49.735 to $ 1.
The peso rate closed higher at P49.735 to the US dollar yesterday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines from P49.815 the previous day. The weighted average rate appreciated to P49.777 from P49.883. Total volume amounted to $ 356.03 million. PNCC gets...