The Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards (CMA), as the fruit of such remarkable partnership, serves as an important platform to convey the message that collaboration with a strong shared vision, coupled with responsive policies and platforms, can bring the best out of the Filipino people. It is thus with great interest that I participate in this year’s CMA.
The increase in the number of marginal businesses and the expansion of household and corporate leverage could act to weaken economic agents’ capacity to deal with external shocks. Under these circumstances with high economic uncertainties at home and abroad, we should provide unwavering policy support for households and companies so that they can overcome this crisis.