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2. Overseas Filipino Worker - Wikipedia

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   Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers, people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. [3] The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million between April and September 2020. Of these, female workers comprised a larger portion, making up 59. ...

3. Philippine Overseas Employment Administration - Wikipedia

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   The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration was established in 1982 through Executive Order No. 797. The goal of the agency's establishment was to promote and monitor the overseas employment of Filipino workers. [3] The POEA was reorganized in 1987 through Executive Order No. 247 in order to respond to changing markets and economic ...

4. Overseas Filipinos - Wikipedia

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   33,424 (2020) [19] An overseas Filipino (Filipino: Pilipino sa ibayong-dagat) is a person of full or partial Filipino origin who trace their ancestry back to the Philippines but are living and working outside of the country. They get jobs in countries, and they move to live in countries that they get jobs in.

5. Sakadas - Wikipedia

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   Sakadas (Spanish: sacadas; Kinaray-a: manga sakada; Ilocano: dagiti sakada; Hiligaynon: mga sakada; roughly "imported ones") is a term for migrant workers in and from the Philippines, doing manual agricultural labor. Within the Philippines, sakadas work in provinces other than their own. In the 20th century, Filipino men were imported by the ...

6. List of deployment bans on Overseas Filipino Workers

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   Deployment of "skilled" and "semi-skilled" were allowed on May 12 [9] and the ban was completely lifted on May 16. [10] Partial. May 12, 2018 – May 16, 2018. Libya. Total. February 22, 2011 – December 20, 2011. POEA suspended the deployment of Filipino workers to Libya due to political unrest. In December 2011, workers in the medical and ...

7. Nursing in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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   The presence of Americans played a vital role in influencing the development of nursing into a profession. Nurses and missionaries from the United States came to act as nurse mentors for the Filipina women. Nursing education, like teaching and missionary work in the Philippines, provided white American women with a sense of purpose in the ...

8. Philippines–United States relations - Wikipedia

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   During Marcos's working visit to the United States on September 18–24, top financial officials secured investment pledges of $4 billion and 100,000 jobs for the Philippines. Biden pledged to help the Philippines with energy and food security, [ 32 ] [ 28 ] reiterating that message during the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits in Cambodia during the ...

9. Business process outsourcing in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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   With the Philippines being the 39th largest economy in the world, the country continues to be a promising prospect for the BPO Industry. In August 2014, the Philippines hit an all-time high for employment in the BPO industry. From 101,000 workers in 2004, the labor force in the industry grew to over 930,000 in just the first quarter of 2014. [7]