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September 10th, 2006 12:08 AM #11
Yeah, Vietnam is our biggest threat in Southeast Asia.
Imagine, just forty years ago, it was a country in ruins... and yet, within the next ten years, it may surpass the Philippines in economic growth.
*the_wildthing: Tama, We don't have to be better than everyone else. Just better than some others in the right things, at the right time.
BTW, guys, add call-centers to nurses, sailors and service personnel. The Philippines is the prime choice for outsourced US call centers... over India, even... but that's because the Indians have the wrong accent.
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September 10th, 2006 12:48 AM #12
Yeah madami tayong IT people BUT we are end-users NOT innovators... Gusto nila India kasi when they do programming, creative sila gumawa ng software apps... Most of our IT grads e puro patikim lang ang alam sa programming... hanggang looping statements lang ang abot ng knowledge but manipulating graphics, building powerful databases??? mabibilang mo lang ang may alam...
AMEN to this one!!!!! Masarap ang simpleng buhay nung 80s na pagdating ng gabi ay si Jawo, Don-don Ampalayo, Rudy Distrito, Leo Isaac, at si Mamaril ang starting five sa PBA!
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September 10th, 2006 01:18 AM #13
they do because they have good government leaders who are not corrupt. good governance has a domino effect on everything: it will encourage more investments from the rich pinoys and from foreign investors, which in turn will create more jobs, which will create more exports, which in turn will improve the economy which in turn will improve the GDP, etc.
a corrupt government has a domino effect on everything: it discourages investments, therefore no jobs, no material exports, economy sucks and so is the GDP. where do we turn to? we export our human labor so our economy can survive.
yes, you're correct that individuals make up a nation but in the end, it's the powers-that-be in the government who can either make it or break it.
we need good leaders who can motivate and serve as good examples to the people, who can make our country turn around for the better.
Singapore and Hong Kong have good leaders...in the Philippines? you know the answer.
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September 10th, 2006 02:09 AM #14
as someone who has seen the new recruits to the call centers...
i fear we may no longer have the edge soon...sooner than we think. my gulay, i don't even know how the heck they passed CFS (corporate foundation skills) training - the part where they focus on diction, etc.
we gotta have better english right from the get-go (elementary level sa schools) if we wanna hold on to that edge.
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September 10th, 2006 03:32 PM #15
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September 10th, 2006 06:04 PM #16
RE: Hong Kong and Singapore: they're both Cities, very little or absolutely no rural areas, and they have strict immigration policies. They don't have a huge number of poor people in the countryside and a squatter population to support. And because they're cities, their focus is concentrated on technology, trade and manufacturing, so they aren't as negatively affected as we are by the aggressive and unfair agricultural trade practices of the US and Europe. They're also major ports, especially Singapore.
Our uncompetitiveness is inexcusable, though, if you compare us to Malaysia...
Yeah. call centers are beginning to realize this, too, and a lot of them are approaching us to collaborate on English tranining for students. That way, they have a bigger and better prepared labor pool to choose from.
Of course, we have to improve our Inglesh Tichurz first... ouch.
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