BENEL D. LAGUA
Financial inclusion has highlighted the need to make available a wide range of financial services (savings, credit, insurance, payments) to the unbanked and under-banked, particularly micro, small and medium enterprises or MSMEs. Interestingly, the Philippine Development Plan framework for 2017-2022 aims to provide a foundation for inclusive growth anchored on the three values of “malasakit, pagbabago and kaunlaran.”