Unknown to more than 100 million Filipinos, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank approved in February an $850-million loan to the Aquino administration for widening the number of beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program.

ADB granted $400 million and the World Bank, $450 million, raising the Philippine government’s indebtedness to the two multilateral financial institutions to $1.8 billion.

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