Different scholars argue that good governance is crucial for an effective and efficient delivery of microcredit services to the enterprising poor and builds financially viable local financial intermediaries and sustainable microcredit programs. Microcredit governance includes the provision of...

The study argues for the integration of good governance principles in developing financially viable, effective and social equity-laden microcredit strategy for the impoverished agrarian reform beneficiaries in Western Mindanao. It particularly examines the program design and implementation...

Although at the beginning of the 21st century, over 95 percent of all countries in the world have granted women the right to vote and the right to stand for election (Ballington & Karam, 2005), gender equality in terms of representation in political structures remains to be a challenge around...

Postwar rehabilitation towards peace and development includes survival support components. To deliver in this context requires both dispersed local (community, civil society and/or local governmental) and national (logistical, strategic and coordinating) domestic capacity (Green and Ahmed,...

Conflicting notions of “the war” as experienced (subjective realities) surfaced in the study but generated “convergence” as these were correlated with the institutionalized beliefs of war (objective realities). Subjective realities include the victims’ psycho-social trauma and...

Microcredit can be an effective tool for tackling the global poverty problem. Making microcredit work better for the poor necessitates a framework that integrates the principles of good governance in the design and implementation of a microcredit program. The integration of good governance...

Postwar rehabilitation towards peace and development includes survival support components. To deliver in this context requires both dispersed local (community, civil society and/or local governmental) and national (logistical, strategic and coordinating) domestic capacity (Green and Ahmed,...

For about sixty-five years, the problem of landownership and control of resources continue to be a political development issue in the Philippines - between the wealthy landlords and the poor and landless farmworkers. Agrarian reform is viewed as a necessary condition for agricultural...

The regional economy of Zamboanga Peninsula, Philippines is primarily dependent on agriculture, aqua-marine, forestry and other natural resource (AFNR) with major processed products exported to the United States of America, Canada, European Union and other countries in Asia. The region’s top...

Postwar rehabilitation towards peace and development includes survival support components. To deliver in this context requires both dispersed local (community, civil society and/or local governmental) and national (logistical, strategic and coordinating) domestic capacity (Green and Ahmed,...