“I guess we are very lucky in the Philippines because our government – the Insurance Commission – has been very supportive in the kind of work that we do,” says Aris Alip. “They believe that empowering the poor through owning microinsurance companies is the best manifestation of poverty eradication.” Alip is the managing director of […]

The Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) was established in 1986 as a non-profit, non-political foundation. On April 1988 it started its operations with a training and livelihood assistance program for landless coconut workers. In January 1989, CARD pilot-tested a modified Grameen Bank scheme in four villages of San Pablo City, Laguna. The results […]