Social activist and entrepreneur Lisa Dacanay is the first Asian to win the World Economic Forum (WEF) Social Innovation Thought Leader Award. Dr. Lisa Dacanay, President of the Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA), was honored as one of the nine recipients of the inaugural Social Innovation Thought Leader award given by the Schwab […]
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Honesty Store opens at Bayambang Pangasinan municipal hall
Honesty Stores, unattended store shelves where people can pick up what they need and drop the exact payment in a box, have sprouted all over Bayambang town in Pangasinan province – first in schools and now at the Bayambang municipal hall. The Bayambang Poverty Reduction Action Team (BPRAT) of the municipal government set up Honesty […]
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PH anti-poverty program praised by World Bank
The Philippine government’s conditional cash transfer program has been recognized by the World Bank as an effective measure to reduce economic inequality in the country.
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