Labor as an economic factor in the Philippines

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Intensification of Exploitation and New Forms of Exploitation
From Antonio Tujan, Globalization and Labor and Social Investigation in Southern Tagalog. [4 May 1998]. In response to globalization, policies that support a more intense exploitation of labor.
Manila fears loss of thousands of computer experts
AFP, The Straits Times, 3 November 2000. An easing of restrictions on the entry of foreign computer workers into the United States may result in a massive brain drain of computer specialists from the Philippines.
Arroyo delivers blunt message to overseas workers
By Marites Sison, IPS, Asia Times 24 August 2001. Philippines' labor export policy was first designed as a temporary economic measure but now entering its 27th year. Overseas Filipino workers should stay where they are and not think of coming home, she said recently, because the country's faltering economy still cannot absorb them.
Employment indicators prove Gloria wrong on ‘sound’ macroeconomic policies
IBON Foundation, 9 July 2002. IBON Foundation, Inc. brushed aside President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's assertion that her administration has been able to steer the country to sound macroeconomic policies, saying recent employment indicators also prove that not everything is all right with the country's economy. Concerning unemployment.