The latter follows a recent merger with Beesy, the Italian micro-business banking startup.
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Opportunity Fund has the largest portfolio of micro-business loans under management among nonprofit lenders in the nation.
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" Meanwhile, Portify says it will use the new funding to offer credit building and personal loans for "micro-business use.
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Disaster relief: Many of the government's disaster relief programs simply do not work for the self-employed and micro-business community.
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Helping parents keep their kids busy Kate Fryer's shop -- A Bead Just So -- in Ballston Spa, New York, is a micro business.
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They couldn't believe that a kid, at 10, can pick up these business principles and literally start their own little micro business.
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Thus, small-scale farmers can learn how to improve crop yield or how to start a micro-business, enabling them to increase household income.
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Beyond the financial rewards, running this micro business taught me the value of believing in my dreams and having the guts to pursue them.
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Ping An Bank estimated average work resumption among its 600 small- and micro-business (SME) clients climbed to 78% by Monday, from 59% the prior week.
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Financial planners, many who are self-employed or are employed by a micro-business, will have to spend precious resources, including dollars and time, in compliance.
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Today, more than half of internet users bank online and microcredit institutions have fostered a better environment for financial inclusion by creating a culture of credit in micro-business owners.
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As one of the fastest growing small business demographics, the self-employed and micro-business community (businesses with 10 or fewer employees) represents over 76 percent of all small businesses.
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Let's make sure the right pieces are in place so that our economy can foster independent workers and micro-business owners while creating a sustainable, self-reliant and thriving economy.
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"Following feedback from SumUp merchants, it was clear that quicker payments and uninterrupted access to funds were particularly important to those running a micro-business, and who may not be able to open a traditional business account," adds the spokesperson.
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Setting up a program that is inclusive of the self-employed and micro-business community will require true vision by members of both parties and both chambers, but not doing so will continue to harm American families and further ensure this population remains vulnerable to the ebbs and flows of financial uncertainty and global health pandemics.
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The foundation currently works in four main areas: education, health, community development and micro-business.
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The Small Business Party (formerly Micro Business Party) is a political party registered in the Australian state of Western Australia.
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From January 1, 2020, the republic will abandon two alternative tax systems - self-employed and family entrepreneurship. They will be replaced by micro-entrepreneurship with a non-taxable threshold of up to 24 million drams. Business entities that carry out specialized activities, in particular, accounting, advocacy, and consulting will not be considered as micro-business entities. Micro business will be exempted from all types of taxes other than income tax, which will be 5 thousand drams per employee.
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An earlier Small Business Party of Western Australia merged into the Micro Business Party (established in 2016) before the 2017 state election. In the 2017 Western Australian election, the Micro Business Party fielded 46 candidates in the Legislative Assembly (out of 59 electorates) and 14 candidates across the six regions for the Legislative Council. The party received 13,211 first preference votes for Legislative Assembly seats (representing 1% of votes cast), and 7,484 votes for the Legislative Council.
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TESDA developed this matching process to find the best job-skills fit, as well as increase productivity of training programs by assisting those who wish to go into micro business, small and medium enterprises of entrepreneurship.
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Arizona MultiBank Community Development Corporation, in conjunction with the PPEP Micro-business and Housing Development Corporation in Tucson, provided funding for the purchase of both KDAP and KDAP-FM by Douglas Broadcasting, Inc. (Howard N. Henderson).
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Balaji Wafers and Namkeen group, based in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, manufactures and distributes potato chips and other grain-based bagged snacks . Started as a micro-business, it has evolved into a company of products with an indigenous taste.
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African Honey Bee is a social-franchise beekeeping micro-business incubatorThe DTI established in 2007. Its purpose is to alleviate poverty through sustainable beekeeping, by enabling rural families to benefit from the unpolluted prime honey producing vegetation around them.
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Founded in 2012, the Small Business Academy is a specialized program aimed at small and micro-business in low income communities in South Africa. Large corporate sponsors and partners work with the SBA to develop skill set training for small business owners.
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The House of Commons Library maintains a briefing note pulling together these statistical sources. In May 2013 David Young, Baron Young of Graham published a report for government on supporting micro-business growth in the UK, "Growing your business: a report on growing micro businesses".
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Under employment exists particularly among the women. They participate primarily in family activities. They help with agricultural tasks, especially in picking coffee or tending to other aspects of coffee production. Women receive some income from breeding poultry and egg sales, sewing, cutting coffee, fish farming, pig growing, micro- business, vegetable processing, and running small groceries and eateries.
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The Office for National Statistics and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy both maintain statistical recordsONS business size, activity and location statistics. Unlike the EU definitions, there are no turnover or balance sheet limits to the UK micro-business definition. UK Government Business Population estimates. which officially classify businesses of 1–9 employees as being micro-businesses.
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In 2011 she organised a crowdfunding campaign called Digitise The Dawn, which successfully raised funds to digitise The Dawn, an early feminist journal published in Australia between 1888 and 1905. In 2012 she received the Rusty Wrench Award from Linux Australia in recognition of her contributions. She runs a micro-business called Creative Contingencies, which specialises in the Drupal content management platform.
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Government U-turn on unaccompanied refugee children welcomed by MPs. Retrieved 24 June 2016 Warburton sits on several All-party parliamentary groups (APPGs). He was elected the chair of the British Council APPG, chair of the APPG for MusicAll- Party Parliamentary Group On Music, Members. Retrieved 24 February 2018 and vice-chair of both the APPG for Blockchain and the APPG for Small and Micro Business.
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A young Syrian refugee holds a basket that she decorated for sale. Making and selling small crafts or clothes is a common form of micro-business for women. In developing countries, microenterprises constitute the vast majority of the small business sector—a result of the relative lack of formal sector jobs available for the poor. Microenterprises in developing countries, then, tend to be the most frequent form/size of business.
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The EBRD offers loan and equity finance, guarantees, leasing facilities, trade finance, and professional development through support programs. Direct investments in equity range from 5% to 25% stakes and €5 million to €230 million. Smaller projects are financed both directly by the EBRD and through "financial intermediaries". The EBRD website states it has helped finance over 1 million smaller projects by supporting local commercial banks, micro-business banks, equity funds and leasing facilities.
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Clique is an app and website offering safe and social fashion resale released by Glorious Games. Clique connects users with similar fashion interests and allows them to create cliques, member groups for buyers and sellers interested in similar styles or fashions. Users can create and lead a Clique group and receive a percentage of items sold within their group. The system is designed to offer sales incentives and the potential for micro business development to active users.
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Indian author Sivakumar K.P. has produced the official biography of Girma Wolde Giorgis. The book, Under the Shade of a Gaashe, was released on 15 July 2015 at the official residence of the former president. Micro Business College is the publisher of the Ethiopian edition. The author acknowledges the role of Abera Tilahun, founder and president of Micros Business College in Ambo in introducing him to the former president and financing the publishing of the book.
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In 1977 Esperança moved from a curative approach to a preventive model of treatment. The program originated in Brazil and focused on nutrition, including education for mothers as well as recording the weight of their preschool aged children. The program has since expanded to Nicaragua, Peru, Bolivia, and Mozambique. Esperança invests in education and food-related micro-business that directly provide adequate sources of nutrition while simultaneously yielding profit from excess eggs, milk, grain, livestock, and crops.
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Since 2003, she has been working as a partner of the Dreamcatcher Foundation – South Africa"Partner – Carole Spiers Group" Dreamcatcher South Africa. Retrieved 17 February 2014. working on the townships of South Africa's Southern Cape delivering micro-business training programmes and one to one coaching sessions to local entrepreneurs living in township communities by providing marketing expertise for those wishing to develop their own businesses in their local communities."Self-marketing within the South African context" Retrieved 5 September 2015.
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As an organization, The Contributor is a nonprofit social enterprise providing economic opportunity with dignity to people experiencing or who have experienced homelessness and poverty. Every two weeks, a new issue of The Contributor is published and sold by over 150 vendors in Middle Tennessee. By signing a contract and attending training, Contributor vendors become independent micro-business men and women who invest in their own micro- businesses by purchasing papers for $.50 and selling them for $2.00 plus tips to the public.
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Throughout 2013 Jake Leith was responsible for leading the Fashion Business International Development Initiative for The British Council in collaboration with The University of Brighton, in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Morocco. The requested focus from the British Council and the governments of the countries involved was SME/micro business development through innovation and entrepreneurship. This ongoing programme aims to give an understanding of key areas in the Global Fashion Industry business providing practitioners and students with the knowledge required to successfully carve a career in the sector.
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In 1985, Research and Development Department was established at LCCI to act as the Think Tank and Advocacy Arm. The department is active to help business community is meeting their day to day need through providing updated information regarding business and economy and macro and micro business and economic policies of the government. The department is in contact with various government and international agencies in order to get consultation regarding important national and international policy matters which could affect directly or indirectly business, trade and industry.
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A micro-enterprise (or microenterprise) is generally defined as a small business employing nine people or fewer, and having a balance sheet or turnover less than a certain amount (e.g. €2 million or PhP 3 million). The terms microenterprise and microbusiness have the same meaning, though traditionally when referring to a small business financed by microcredit the term microenterprise is often used. Similarly, when referring to a small, usually legal business that is not financed by microcredit, the term microbusiness (or micro-business) is often used.
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During his congressional tenure, he authored and co-authored legislation on fiscal and financial reform, anti-money laundering, barangay micro-business enterprise. Moreno also authored laws to strengthen education, social services and environment protection in the countryside. He was also a member of the Prosecution Panel during the 2000-2001 impeachment trial of President Joseph Ejercito Estrada. Media organizations such as the Free Press Magazine, Reporter Magazine and the Asusasyon Ne Kumentarista at Anaunser ng Pilipinas named him one of the Top Ten Outstanding Congressmen.
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The Campus offers a range of activities from childcare, after school clubs, art sessions, sports centre groups, computer sales and recycling, training including ICT and micro business incubation. It also houses a specialist resource for children with disabilities (A non maintained special school for children with physical and sensory disabilities registered with the Department for Children, Schools and Families) and programmes for adults with disabilities. High Green has two main estates based around their equally named parks. Mortomley Park and Angram Bank Recreation Park.
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In modern-day Yogyakarta, the alun-alun lor is now surrounded by shops and malls, frequently holding micro-business stalls and for youngsters to picnic on the grounds and consume their recently purchased take-away (take-out) food. The Yogyakarta kraton alun-alun kidul has two banyan trees in the centre famed, according to local folklore, to bring good luck to skillful enough to navigate their way between them without mishap, blindfolded and today on Friday and Saturday nights, youngsters boisterously pursue this fabled luck.Indonesian's Culture Heritages Portal.
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A business which falls under the Republic Act 9501 Magna Carta for Micro, Small, Medium Enterprise (MSME) is eligible of the following incentives from the BMBE: # Income tax exemption from income arising from the operations of the enterprise # Exemption from the coverage of the Minimum Wage Law (BMBE employees will still receive the same social security and health care benefits as other employees) # Priority to a special credit window set up specifically for the financing requirements of BMBEs # Technology transfer, production and management training, and marketing assistance programs for BMBE beneficiaries. The government, in its objective to strengthen Barangay Micro Business Enterprises in the country and provide more jobs, livelihood and a better quality of life for Filipinos, has enacted Republic Act 9178, otherwise known as the “Barangay Micro Business Enterprises Act of 2002”. In other words, a business or activity may be eligible to register as BMBE if they meet the following criteria: # The business enterprise is engaged in production, processing, or manufacturing of products, including agro-processing, as well as trading and services. # The business enterprise has total assets of or less including those arising from loans but excluding the land on which the plant and equipment are located.
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Micro businesses in the Philippines can be defined according to the size of assets, size of equity capital, and number of employees. A typical micro business is a business that employs nine people or fewer, with assets of . In the Philippines, about 90 percent of all businesses are categorized as micro businesses. These consist of enterprises engaged in industry, agribusiness and or services, whether single proprietorship, cooperative, partnership or corporation. Their total assets, inclusive of those arising from loans but exclusive of the land on which the particular business entity’s office, plant and equipment are situated, have value of not more than .
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Although it was possible to obtain compilers for Locomotive BASIC, C and Pascal, the majority of the CPC's software was written in native Z80 assembly language. Popular assemblers were Hisoft's Devpac, Arnor's Maxam, and (in France) DAMS. Disk- based CPC (not Plus) systems shipped with an interpreter for the educational language LOGO, booted from CP/M 2.2 but largely CPC-specific with much code resident in the AMSDOS ROM; 6128 machines also include a CP/M 3.1, non-ROM version. A C compiler was also written and made available for the European market through Tandy Europe, by Micro Business products.
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The BUV can promote trade and sustainable development by allowing micro-business growth and trade at a grassroots level. In order to engage young engineering and technology talent, the IAT has enlisted educational institutions in the design and development of BUV's. Other universities are involved with the IAT initiative in marketing research to calculate costs, target market, distribution, location, service and logistics issues. Will Austin, the Executive Director of IAT, began working full-time on the BUV design in April 2000 and founded the Institute for Affordable Transportation as a 501(c)(3) public charity shortly thereafter.
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The main commercial activities are tourism, crofting, fishing and whisky distilling (centred on Islay but also including Talisker in Skye, Isle of Jura Single Malt and Tobermory and Ledaig in Mull). Overall, the area is relatively reliant on primary industries and the public sector; there is a dependence on self-employment and micro- business, and most parts are defined by Highlands and Islands Enterprise as economically "Fragile Areas". However, the islands are well placed to exploit renewable energy, particularly onshore and offshore wind; and the Sleat peninsula of Skye is an example of a more economically robust area."Argyll and the Islands - economic profile". HIE.
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Since the third quarter of 2016, a move to empower micro businesses through an active eco system of support through funding, logistics and creative guidance has begun to take place. The move challenges everyone to consider the micro business model as a viable business option, and empowers aspiring entrepreneurs to pursue their business goals with the support they need. It gives due emphasis to the microbusiness model and how it can grow into a strong and stable enterprise that generates a steady stream of income, enough for it to expand as a world-class conglomerate while staying in the micro model. It challenges the status quo to #thinkmicro, as the current hashtag relating to this school of thought suggests.
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She was also one of the authors, along with others such as Sarah Ash and Mark Chadbourn, behind The Write Fantastic, which was an initiative by a group of fantasy authors to promote the fantasy genre, and to display the scope of current fantasy writing. McKenna joined forces with a group of micro business owners to form EU VAT ACTION resolve the VAT issue caused by the EU VAT regulations which came into force on 1 January 2015. She spent considerable time working with businesses and experts in the UK and EU to create a way that small businesses online could work with the VAT regulations. She regularly attends fantasy conventions and hosted FantasyCon 2015's awards night, gives talks, and teaches creative writing courses.
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Special loan funds for small businesses in affected areas, to prevent them from going out of business and to boost the local economy during times of distress. For example, during the 2006 Lebanon War, the Jewish Agency established a micro-business loan fund in the north. Fund for the Victims of Terror: During the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict, for example, the Jewish Agency gave 120 grants from the Fund for the Victims of Terror to Israeli families who had suffered death or major physical injury. Scholarships for university students in affected areas: In the aftermath of the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict, for example, the Jewish Agency distributed 1,300 scholarships in March 2015 to students who live , or study , from the Gaza border.
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In addition to serving as an organizational tool and a social network, Ravelry facilitates micro-business, allowing designers to sell their knitting patterns and supporting informal, direct buying and selling between users via the "Stash" and "Needles & Hooks" capabilities. "Yarnies" are semi- professional dyers, spinners, and/or painters who sell handspun, hand-dyed or painted yarns. Yarnies exist in a separate category from users who are simply selling yarn they own but did not make themselves, and must create a special business-type profile on the site, "blur[ring] the lines between a commercial operation and a homemade undertaking." Knitters may use Ravelry to fund-raise for charities, an example of "an activity that straddles the commercial and the non-commercial economies," and the site has been also used by some for market research.
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The Coalfields Regeneration Trust in England provides support to community groups, voluntary organisations and partners through a range of programmes. These include; Coalfields Community Grants which provides small grant support to community organisations; Enterprising Communities that provides practical help and technical assistance to support the development of social enterprises; Game on Midnight League which engages young people through football; and the Coalfields Micro Business Loan Fund which invests in new start businesses to help stimulate entrepreneurship in the coalfields. In addition, it is embarking on an ambitious programme of investment in property and development to generate the income to sustain its social investment activities moving forward. The Coalfields Regeneration Trust in England operates in the following regions; North East; North West; Yorkshire; East Midlands; West Midlands and Kent.
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Lehmacher is engaged in various associations and expert bodies to foster the supply chain, transport and logistics industries as well as sustainable practices, for example he is member of BVL International, the Club of Logistics and the Rat der Logistikweisen, a think tank under the patronate of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur) in Germany. He is advocate of the principles underpinning the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and the ‘Partnering Against Corruption Initiative’ (PACI). He is member of the Board of Governors of the Universal Business School in Karjat, Western India, the first green Indian business school and the Advisory Board of Aidha in Singapore, the world's first micro-business. Lehmacher is also member of the jury of the IATA Air Cargo Innovation Awards and of the jury of the Automotive Logistics Awards Europe.
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In 1997 he began what became a seven-year commitment to humanitarian and missionary work, based out of Cairo but also working in over five different Arab countries. A large number of the 400-plus Christians, Muslims and Coptics trained and funded by the Sweeney family continue to work today in Syria, Tunisia, Bahrain, Lebanon and Sudan primarily with schools, clinics, job training, micro-business and tent making enterprises. In 2004 Sweeney was considered for top positions at the Peace Corps and in helping to organize the first democratic Afghan presidential election, 2004 and the Afghan parliamentary election, 2005; but could not come to terms with the Bush Administration. As of 2011 he operates the Washington-based Paraclete Group which funds large infrastructure projects in developing nations that are typically paired with select in-country charities or international NGO groups.
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By November 2015, in association with the CONASETRA (Conferencia Nacional de Secretarios del Trabajo) a trade of labor politics was made, where the priority to include the young people in the labor market was exposed, increasing the job opportunities and the diffusion of those, reducing the difficulties to find a first job and creating innovating micro business programs. In December 2015, a trade in collaboration with the CONAGO and SCHP, the use for an electronic signature called FIEL was stablished, this mechanism was created to speed up and make clear all the fiscal procedures. In equality and genre discrimination, the CONAGO made a deal with the secretary of external relationships, Claudia Ruiz Massieu, who claimed the different international agreements that Mexico has with the Convencion sobre la Eliminiación de todas las Formas de discriminación contra la Mujer, a convention for women discriminated. Trying to create secure corporations for citizens, Eruviel Ávila stablished the process of ratify profiles and attitudes before designate a function to people in charge from the institutions of social security.
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In 1995, he ran for senator and won under the Ramos administration ticket and was re-elected to a second term in the 2001 elections, placing second among the 12 winning candidates. As senator, he authored and sponsored several landmark bills including the Traditional Medicine Law, the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act, Philippine Clean Air Act, Indigenous People's Rights Act, Anti-money Laundering Act, Barangay Micro-Business Enterprise, National Service Training Program for Tertiary Students, Dangerous Drugs Act, Plant Variety Protection Act, Philippine Nursing Act, the Tobacco Regulation Act, and the law declaring Eid'l Fitr a national public holiday in the Philippines. When he was senator he had a perfect attendance record during sessions, a fact mentioned in the Senate resolution marking his death, which read in part, "The hard-working legislator registered a perfect attendance during the sessions and was instrumental in the enactment of landmark legislations promoting public health care and improving the quality of life of the people." He was also the "poorest" senator, with a net worth on his 2005 Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net worth (SALN) of 3.49 million Philippine pesos.
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