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Is labor export good development policy?

Philippine Review of Economics

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Title Is labor export good development policy?
 
Creator Pernia, Ernesto M.; School of Economics, University of the Philippines
 
Subject migration; labor export; remittances; development policy
 
Description Labor migration began to be promoted in the late ’60s or early ’70s by a number of Asian countries plagued by problems of unemployment, poverty, and scant foreign exchange. However, labor export was generally intended to be a stopgap measure while governments were trying to implement policy reforms to whip their economies into shape. Indeed, labor migration as policy has largely faded in many of our Asian neighbors but remains a major development policy plank in our country. What has made the Philippines specially cut out to be a labor exporter? What are the benefits and costs of migration? Is the export of labor sustainable? Are we content being a labor exporter? Is there a need to rethink the country’s labor export policy?Classification-JEL: F22, F24, J08, J61 
 
Publisher Philippine Review of Economics
 
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Date 2012-08-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/659
 
Source Philippine Review of Economics; Vol 48, No 1 (2011): Papers from the Ayala Corporation and the University of the Philippines School of Economics (AC-UPSE) Economic Forum; 13-34
1655-1516
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/659/765
 
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