If your business is well-established, you might be thinking of making it grow even more by going the franchising route. Franchising can be a fast, low-cost means to expand your business. F you’re operating Read More
By Myrna Rodriguez Co, SERDEF Media Bureau (An abbreviated version of this article was published in Sunday Biz, Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 21, 2014) It’s the season to be merry. It’s the season to make Read More
What is Christmas without feasting. However, not every household has a member willing and able to whip up delicious Noche Buena and holiday dishes to make an outstanding table. Moreover, those who can cook may Read More
Republic Act 10000, or the Agri-Agra Reform Credit Act of 2009 enacted in 2010, mandates credit allocation by banks and other financial institutions to farmers, fisherfolk, and agrarian reform beneficiaries. The law provides that banks Read More
Ifore Yu by Myrna Rodriguez Co (first published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Business Friday section, December 5, 2014) Youth unemployment is at a crisis stage. According to the International Labor Organization, 73 million youth Read More
Windows to Entrepreneurship: A Teacher’s Guide, 2013 The first of its kind in the Philippines, the book aims to enhance the proficiency of teachers handing Entrepreneurship subjects at the college level so that Read More
Republic Act No. 10395, or “An Act Strengthening Tripartism” was signed into law by President Benigno Aquino, Jr. in July 2012. It declared tripartism in labor relations as a state policy, allowing employers and workers Read More
T The ASEAN economic integration – now in progress and supposed to be complete by 2015 – can be a boon or a bane, depending on how prepared an economy or a business is. Small Read More
Checks are being used all the time for business as well as personal purposes. Checks are easier to carry around than bundles of currency; they are safer as you can readily stop payment on a Read More
A majority of small farmers earn income disproportionately small to the amount of hard work they invest in working their farms. Some barely manage to eke out a living from their subsistence farms. They have Read More
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