Manana money
Banks on a roll
From his office high above the streets in a new building in Makati, Manila's business district, former president Fidel V Ramos looks out across the city and gestures expansively at the rust-roofed shanties that cling to every corner of the city. "I'm concerned for those people there," he says.
By most calculations, a third of all Filipinos are constantly battling with poverty. And most of them are not winning. The Philippines is Asia's seventh-most populous nation, and with...
