GMA Wants RP to End Dependence on OFWs

[chua_riwap]

SINGAPORE: The Philippines is hoping to reduce its dependence on remittances from overseas workers by boosting local employment opportunities, President Arroyo said Sunday.

About eight million Filipinos, close to 10 percent of the Southeast Asian nation’s population, now live and work in more than 100 countries. But Arroyo expressed hope that Filipinos would no longer have to seek work overseas in large numbers if conditions improve at home.

“We’re very proud of our overseas Filipinos,” Mrs. Arroyo said at the two-day World Economic Forum on East Asia ahead of a state visit to Singapore, which hosts tens of thousands of Filipino workers and professionals.

The President said she had inherited “a history of economic lethargy” before a burst of growth under her watch. She said 26 straight quarters of economic growth, tax reform and billions of dollars in foreign workers’ remittances, which fuel consumption, meant the Philippines now has some money to invest in education and other basic services.

“Now that we have our revenues because of our painful economic reforms, we would like to transform the pain into gains in human and physical infrastructure,” she said. “And when I talk about human infrastructure, I do mean education, healthcare and training,” she said.

Most Filipinos in Singapore work as maids, but a growing number are employed by hotels, retailers and other service-sector establishments in the labor-starved city state. A few are executives in multinational corporations and global banks.

In 2006 overseas workers sent back to the Philippines a record $12.8 billion, up 19.4 percent from 2005, according to Philippine central bank figures, which exclude money remitted through informal channels.


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Madame President, hintayin namin yung mga local employment opportunities para makauwi na kami. Ang tanong, kelan?

Meron pang pahabol .........."if conditions improve at home".


Inshallah.......

[forza1]

We want to see actions and results not another speech of B.S.

[CVT]

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Madame President, hintayin namin yung mga local employment opportunities para makauwi na kami. Ang tanong, kelan?

Meron pang pahabol .........."if conditions improve at home".


Inshallah.......

Sadik,- mafi fuluz, fi mushkela..... Bukra, inshallah.....

The condition here in our country is still not improving as there are no real job opportunities for those who left the country.... Sadly, hindi rito equal opportunities employment....

3001:thud:

[yebo]

i think what gma was referring to are the lowly paid OFWs. those who are working as domestic helpers, manual laborers in construction, farm workers in malaysia, etc., who are basically overseas only because they can not find a job in the philippines. a farm worker in malaysia does not earn more than the average worker in manila, but they go there because they have nothing else. if those ofws can be given decent paying jobs in factories and construction (assuming prospective employers will not cheat them by paying below the minimum wage) then i am sure a lot of them will be very willing to work in the philippines and be with their families.

but as you guys say, inshallah!

[Galactus]

That's not going to happen in her lifetime, or even mine.

My father worked as a civil/structural engineer (late 70's to early 80's) in the Middle East, and he used to say how proud he was in helping build the POL stations in Saudi Arabia, Iran & Iraq. He had a decent job when he was here in RP, but when you're raising a family, you need better options.

Kahit ako, matino naman trabaho ko dito sa Pinas, pero given a chance na mangibang bansa, go ako. (I don't mind working as a clerk or gasoline boy sa Tate or Canada, basta matinong trabaho). Yung manager sa dating company ko, nasa US ngayon, and he's getting paid $8/hour (kasi may problema pa sa papeles). So he had to take a 2nd job.

Until conditions at home improve, the diaspora will continue.

[v6dreamer]

This is what millions pilipinos been waiting for a long time. Hopefully its true.


*Galactus..
Sind Sie uberhaupt nach Deutschland gewesen?

Ein Staat, Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer
A State, Richly, A People, A fuhrer

[Galactus]

^

*v6dreamer: Nein. Der einzige Platz, den ich ist gewesen bin übersee, Hong-Kong. (Sorry for my broken German, nag-aaral pa lang ng konti).

Yung translation pala sa sig ko is: One State, One Nation, One People, One Leader! (or at least what I think it is).

Sorry mods, OT.

[BoEinG_747]

We want to see actions and results not another speech of B.S.

oo nga naman

[Bogeyman]

^

Yung translation pala sa sig ko is: One State, One Nation, One People, One Leader! (or at least what I think it is).

OT:
That's "One State, One Empire, One People, One Leader".

She said 26 straight quarters of economic growth, tax reform and billions of dollars in foreign workers’ remittances, which fuel consumption, meant the Philippines now has some money to invest in education and other basic services.

Wag lang sana mapunta sa maling bulsa ang pondo.

[boybi]

Masyado daw kasing maraming pinapadalang dollars mga OFW dito sa Pinas kaya nagaappreciate ang Peso agaist the USD. Kaya lugi mga dollar na tinago ni GMA at FG

[torque2006]

hmmm.

service based economy tayo eh, we need rapid industrialization para maging manufacturing hub tayo, which is kinda hard to achieve with the state of government we have, plus next door "big brother" China's all over the place.

if ever this happens, don't expect it overnight. even if you put the best and the brightest on top of the government, no one is a miracle worker.

our situation now was brought about by decades of corruption that started way back when the americans left us.

don't blame everything on GMA.

[sea.piper]

HAYYYY NAKU..paanong mangyayari yan eh...Colgate Philippines nga baka magsara itong taon na ito...imbis na dumami ang trabaho..maraming mawawalan pa...buhay pinoy talaga...kawawa

[VtEC]

i think what gma was referring to are the lowly paid OFWs. those who are working as domestic helpers, manual laborers in construction, farm workers in malaysia, etc., who are basically overseas only because they can not find a job in the philippines. a farm worker in malaysia does not earn more than the average worker in manila, but they go there because they have nothing else. if those ofws can be given decent paying jobs in factories and construction (assuming prospective employers will not cheat them by paying below the minimum wage) then i am sure a lot of them will be very willing to work in the philippines and be with their families.

but as you guys say, inshallah!

same here..but the next question will be, will they receive the same salary when employed in the phils?buwaya mga employer sa pinas.