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May 14, 2021 | 7:14 pm
THE HOUSE Committee on Banks and Financial Intermediaries approved a proposed law that will boost rural lenders in the Philippines.
In a hearing on Friday, the committee approved with amendments the Consolidated Bill and the Committee Report on House Bills 4256, 4622, 5143, and 8359 or the proposed Rural Banking Act of 2021.
The bill and report were products of the panel’s technical working group headed by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
The measure will still be up for amendments after committee member Lanao del Norte 2nd District Rep. Abdullah D. Dimaporo said the system must focus on making the banks accessible and suitable for the poor.
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Summary: Many African countries have placed economic diversification high on the policy agenda, yet they first need to define what it means in their specific structural and socioeconomic contexts.
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For decades, economic diversification has been a policy priority for low- and middle-income economies. In the words of former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, “We know that economic diversification is good for growth. Diversification is also tremendously important for resilience.” Unfortunately, this goal continues to elude many African countries. In fact, the continent is home to eight of the world’s fifteen least economically diversified countries. This reality weakens the foundation of their economic transfomation and slows their pace of progress. It also makes these countries part
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