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[Wind Shear]

Originally Posted by the glimpser

Conditional cash transfer working, says World Bank

The World Bank in 2010 released a $405-million load to support the CCT.

Or so they say.

In Talaingod, Ata-Manobo tribe can’t feel the 4Ps; cash aid goes to transpo

http://www.mindanews.com/feature/201...es-to-transpo/

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Flora Juan, 40, who has only one child and gets P300 every month from 4Ps, said she stopped claiming her share because the amount is only good for a one way motorcycle ride from her house in Sitio Dulyan, Barangay Palma Gil, one of the three remote barangays in Talaingod.

Jomar Pugkot, 23, another resident in Sitio Dulyan, said he gets P900 as 4Ps education grant for his three children, but the amount could only buy two kilos of rice, oil and some condiments with the money.

This is because his transportation expense –600 pesos — eats most of the grant. A one-way motorcycle ride from Dulyan to Barangay Sto. Nino costs P300 per person.

The 4Ps beneficiaries are also entitled to a monthly cash grant of P500 for the health and nutrition of every child provided that they attend a family development session.

[saintm]

Pangasinan official’s Guam trip to foster closer ties in business, culture

By Venus H. Sarmiento
DAGUPAN CITY, Sept 25 (PIA) -- The trip of Pangasinan officials to Guam aims to foster closer ties in business, economy, and culture, a member of the provincial board said.

Second district board member Von Mark Mendoza said his fellow provincial officials will be in Guam for the signing of a sisterhood agreement between Pangasinan and Guam.

“It is actually meant to formalize the agreement through a MOA as Pangasinan and Guam share a common connection, a bond of affinity,” Mendoza said during the KBP forum at the Philippine Information Agency office on Thursday, a day before their trip.

Last year, Guam officials, senators Rory Respicio and Judith Guthertz, who together with Federation of Pangasinenses on Guam Pres. Major Vic Rivo, visited Pangasinan and made the partnership possible.

He added that majority of the settlers in Guam are from the Ilocos Region and 40 percent of the electorate in Guam are from Pangasinan.

The provincial government is also looking forward to more employment opportunities for skilled workers from Pangasinan as Guam, now being prepared to host the biggest US military base all over the Pacific, may need construction workers and engineers.

“The project was temporarily shelved but not scrapped, and this will entail thousands of jobs where Pangasinenses can benefit from,” he added.

Governor Amado T. Espino Jr. and Vice-Gov. Jose Ferdinand Calimlim Jr. led the group in Guam and will be there until September 26.

Other members of the delegation included Priscilla Espino; board members Von Mark Mendoza, Angel Baniqued, GenerosoTulagan Jr., Mojamito Libunao Jr., Danilo Uy, Alfonso Bince, Amadeo Perez, Jeremy Agerico Rosario, Salvador Perez Jr.; and Sangguniang Panglalawigan Secretary Verna N. Perez

Mendoza said the invitation to visit Guam was open for all the public officials.

While Espino and Calimlim are out of the country, Provincial Administrator Rafael F. Baraan serves as the acting governor-designate with Board Member Raul Sison as the acting vice-governor. (ANL/VHS-PIA 1, Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php...e=411348467780

[Jrommel]

meron na bang thread para sa mga senior citizens dito??Mods pakialis na lang kung di pwede

are there any oldies here??

The News and events for the senior citizens.This thread is for the people who are in their seniors, parents, grandparents,relatives and people we know..I created this thread because there are newer versions and amendments that can be discussed here.This is a continuous development.

[Jrommel]

In Pasig City

Senior Citizens residing here can watch movies for free every Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursday, free vaccinations for those aged 60 and up. Pasig city already offer counters at some bayad centers and groceries exclusively for the seniors.

[Manila-X]

Please discuss it here!

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=634622

[hakz2007]

MORE FUN BEING FILIPINO | More than 30,000 reacquire Philippine citizenship

MANILA, Philippines - More than 30,000 former Filipinos reacquired their Philippine citizenship last year under the dual citizenship law, the Bureau of Immigration said.

BI Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. said the bureau in 2012 processed 30,362 applications for coverage by Republic Act 9225 or the Citizenship Retention and Reacquisition Act of 2003.

The law allows natural-born Filipinos who became naturalized citizens of other countries to reacquire their Philippine citizenship by taking the oath of allegiance.

Read more

[Nabartek]

Originally Posted by Wind Shear

Or so they say.

In Talaingod, Ata-Manobo tribe can’t feel the 4Ps; cash aid goes to transpo

http://www.mindanews.com/feature/201...es-to-transpo/

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if only the government invested the money in creating jobs for these people. we will have higher gdp and productivity, less financial burden in the long run....

[Igsuonnimo]

ang laro sa pinas(manila centered socio-economics), pataasan ng sweldo hanggang sa makabili ng tinubog sa ginto na arinola

[Nabartek]

I don't see how your comment is relevant to my reply?

I was merely saying that rather than handing them out money which is about 3000 pesos a month, why not use the funds for the CCT instead for job creation that will likely bring about 5000-10,000 pesos a month? The government can create jobs if they want. This is what FDR did during the great depression in the US.

By working, people are creating/producing, therefore higher GDP. When they have more money, they are able to spend more, contributing to the private spending in the GDP....

So, how exactly is a "hand out" bigger money that what will potentially be earned? The government is merely fostering the "beggar" mentality. Only that it is at the burden of tax payers.

[jpdm]

At least the chances of integrating industries here from raw materials to processing to manufactuing goods will be pursued. Alot better than mere importer of finished products and raw material exporter.

From 'clustering' to OTOP and back: DTI reverts to old tack for growing SME sector



By: Arnold S. Tenorio, InterAksyon.com
February 13, 2013 3:52 PM
InterAksyon.com
The online news portal of TV5

MANILA - (UPDATED 5:16 p.m.) The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has reverted to an old tack for developing the country's small and medium enterprise (SME) sector.

During the Philippines' Year-end Economic Briefing, Trade Secretary Gregory Domingo said the department has revived the industry "clustering" approach for SME development. The bulk of Philippine businesses are SMEs, which according to experts are labor-intensive and help alleviate poverty.

"We have shifted from 'One-Town, One-Product' (OTOP) approach to 'clustering' approach around the country," Domingo said.

"We will put up 1,000 community clusters nationwide," he said, adding that the DTI already has a pilot in Kalinga and Mountain Province.

"We have the coffee clusters and provided equipment. Coffee volume will improve 400 percent with automation. We are replicating this (community clusters) a thousand times this year," Domingo said.

Popularized by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter in his book titled The Competitive Advantage of Nations, industry clustering involves developing the backward and forward linkages across the supply chain of a business in a geographic area to increase their overall competitiveness. In the Philippines, a former secretary of the Department of Science and Technology, Ceferino Follosco, promoted industry clustering to improve Philippine businesses' export prospects.

The DTI had adopted the clustering tack until the Arroyo administration replaced it with the OTOP, which was patterned after Thailand's approach of developing the SME sector. Under the OTOP, the government encouraged towns across the country to specialize in a product that is native to the municipality and to promote it both here and abroad.

Manufacturing renaissance

The reversion to clustering comes at an opportune time, as the Philippines appears to enjoy a manufacturing renaissance.

"Growth in manufacturing is across the board," Domingo said, noting that the sector has expanded in the last two quarters of 2012. Year-on-year, manufacturing grew 5.7 and 5.6 percent in the third and fourth quarters of 2012.

The manufacturing sector owes its revival to at least two factors: record-low interest rates and growing investor departure from China, heretofore the world's factory.

"Part of the reason manufacturing was up is because some Japanese plants have opened," Domingo said, noting a surge in Japanese investments since the start of 2011.

The "Japanese are coming here because of rising costs in China," he said. Inflation in the Philippines averaged 3.2 percent last year, or at the low end of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas' (BSP) target range of 3-5 percent. For this year, the BSP is aiming for the same range.

Low and stable inflation in turn contributes to a low interest-rate environment. Benchmark Treasury bill rates have settled below one percent, whereas the BSP's policy rates are at record lows, encouraging more people to take out a loan, which remains the main form of financing a business.

Bank lending has risen by double-digits for more than a year. The latest BSP data show that loans for production activities grew by 16 percent year-on-year last December, accelerating from the previous month. Loans to the manufacturing sector likewise have risen by double-digits to corner a fifth of banks' total outstanding loan.

With a report from Likha Cuevas-Miel

http://www.interaksyon.com/article/5...ing-sme-sector

[indianpresley_0028]

Originally Posted by Jrommel

meron na bang thread para sa mga senior citizens dito??Mods pakialis na lang kung di pwede

are there any oldies here??

The News and events for the senior citizens.This thread is for the people who are in their seniors, parents, grandparents,relatives and people we know..I created this thread because there are newer versions and amendments that can be discussed here.This is a continuous development.

unfortunately, we have to train those senior citizens forumers...to interact with the developments in the forum....you have the point but some of the forumers for that dosen't know how to use computer or laptop

[amigo32]

lol
I am 69 and I know how to use a desktop computer
laptop
mac
linux
though I always forget that CD/DVD drive is not a coffee cup holder

[Monchhichi]

SSS business loans reach P189M in first year

Social Security System (SSS), the pension fund for private sector employees, on Monday said it released P189.05-million worth of business loans last year, primarily for the growth and expansion of private enterprises.

Nine companies in the services, real estate and construction, and consumer commodities trading industry received corporate loans of P1 million to P43 million, said SSS assistant vice president for Lending and Asset Management Ma. Luz C. Generoso.

These were the first batch of borrowers under the SSS Business Development Loan Facility (BDLF) launched last year.

"The BDLF is part of SSS’ commitment to support state efforts to spur national economic growth by providing private sector employers wider access to credit. This loan privilege is extended to SSS-registered employers that are seeking funds to expand or diversify their businesses," Generoso said.

Accredited that give out the SSS business loans are Development Bank of the Philippines, Land Bank of the Philippines, Philippine Veterans Bank, Planters Development Bank, Valiant Rural Bank-Iloilo, Philippine National Bank and Banco de Oro Unibank Inc.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...-in-first-year