The price of WiMax CPEs (customer premise equipment) must fall to a cost-effective level for operators before the masses in rural areas of the Philippines can access the wireless broadband standard.

Analie, a 15-year old farm girl in the southern Philippine province of Cotabato, stopped going to school last year. The money her parents saved for her education was spent during the last planting ...

Many lenders in the countryside have little capital buffer. Rural banks in the Philippines face a shakeout over the next two ...

You could say that Naomi Wanjiru, 35, and Moreen Kagendo, 28, have beaten the matrix. They have found peace in slow living in a remote corner of Lake Sebu Municipality, South Cotabato Province in the ...

Residents walk through debris and toppled power lines in Tacloban City, Leyte province, central Philippines on Nov. 10, 2013, three days after devastating Typhoon Haiyan hit the city on Nov. 8. When ...

WASHINGTON, AUGUST 29, 2014 –The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a loan and grant financing package for rural infrastructure as well as small business and livelihood projects ...

To the unknowing eye, water hyacinth plants are beautiful. The lovely lavender-colored flowers contrast with the bright green leaves, creating what one might assume is a pleasing sight. But in the ...

A rural call center in the Philippine town of Tanjay is providing a new recruiting model for the outsourcing industry, and enabling local people to find good jobs close to home. WSJ's Trefor Moss ...

MANILA, JANUARY 12, 2018 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved US$ 170 million of additional financing for the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP), designed to boost ...