The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has recently set up a credit facility to finance the business plans of overseas-based Filipino workers and their families. Called the “OFW Reintegration Program,” the new lending program Read More
Entrepreneuership may seem, at first look, to be a very self-serving activity. But look again. It’s true that many businesspeople start ventures to earn income for themselves and their families. However, they end up helping Read More
Entrepreneurship, first and foremost, is all about proper handling of the people in the workplace. An enterprise is built on people-to-people relationship and when an entrepreneur inculcates good values in his people – integrity, hard Read More
The next thing you’d want to know once your stocks are ready is how to price your merchandise. For most sari-sari and grocery stores, a 20 per cent markup is the norm. You may go Read More
So you want to go into business. And so you know next to nothing how to go about it. You might, then, want to consider a retailing business. In many ways, retailing is the simplest Read More
The Philippine government is sparing no efforts to harness support for the passage of the “Save our Industries Act” (Save Act) being deliberated in the United States Congress, a bill expected to give the languishing Read More
“Be accessible; keep your door open” is just one of the business management tips liberally doled out by some 25 entrepreneurs featured in the SERDEF-UP ISSI casebook “Doers, Dreamers, Risktakers (Part 1). “ Listen carefully Read More
SERDEF Trustee and Science and Technology Undersecretary Fortunato T. dela Pena was elected chairman of the United Nations’ Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD), according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Dela Read More
Don’t count the poorest of the poor out. From among them will emerge the smallest of the small entrepreneurs who through their enterprising and hardworking ways will find their way out of the poverty trap. Read More
By 2050, Asia may become the wealthiest region of the world, accounting for up to 50 per cent of the global gross domestic product (GDP), trade and investment. The continent currently accounts for around 27 Read More
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