Header AD

World Bank Praises Philippine Government For Support Of Overseas Filipino Workers


While intra-Asean migration significantly rose during the past decade, more Filipinos were able to find greener pastures outside the region, thanks to government policies that reduced costs for migrant workers, the World Bank said Monday, October 9.

“The Philippines has a highly developed support system for migrant workers that is a model for other sending countries. To build on this status, the country should continue to evaluate and improve its migration management system, including oversight of recruitment agencies, programs for returned migrants, and data sharing and interoperability,” the World Bank said in the report titled “Migrating to Opportunity: Overcoming Barriers to Labor Mobility in Southeast Asia.”

In a video conference, Mauro Testaverde, World Bank economist for the social protection and jobs global practice, told reporters that migrations costs elsewhere in the Asean region were lower if skilled laborers were to transfer to a neighboring country.

However, in the case of the Philippines, “government policy played a very important role in migration,” said Testaverde, who was also the lead author of the report.

The Philippine government was “matching workers to jobs at reduced cost so they can go to farther destinations such as the Middle East and the United States,” Testaverde said.

The report noted that “the Philippines is not only a significant sender of migrants to the Middle East and the United States, but the origin of about a quarter of the world’s ship crews.”

“In the Philippines, households that are able to send a member abroad have twofold or threefold greater odds of escaping poverty,” the World Bank said.

Source: MMPM News
World Bank Praises Philippine Government For Support Of Overseas Filipino Workers World Bank Praises Philippine Government For Support Of Overseas Filipino Workers Reviewed by Yen on October 13, 2017 Rating: 5

No comments

Post AD