AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Workers for the World; The country's prime export is people. But is migration a real development strategy?
Byline: George Wehrfritz and Marites Vitug
Galicano Solares lives beneath a highway overpass in a dank Manila slum. His on-again, off-again construction job pays $4 a day, considerably more than he earned in the gold mines of Bicol before he moved to the city in the late 1980s. Yet he can't afford to educate his three children--now under the care of relatives in the countryside--let alone build the middle-class future of their dreams. But the 37-year-old with a stubbly chin and sweat stains on his T shirt has one advantage over others in the squatter settlement: his wife is a domestic helper in Saudi Arabia. "If there's an emergency, we call her," he says, "like ...
- PHILIPPINES, SAUDI ARABIA TO SIGN PACTS VS. DRUGS, TERRORISM.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News March 8, 2005 700+ words
...Guinomla said the Philippines considers Saudi Arabia not only as potential...the governments of Saudi Arabia and the Philippines are now harmonizing...agreements between the Philippines and Saudi Arabia include the reciprocal...
- SAUDI ARABIA - The Petron Venture In The Philippines.
- Newspaper article from: APS Review Oil Market Trends October 17, 2005 700+ words
...special relations between the Philippines and Saudi Arabia, noting that both countries...balance of trade between Saudi Arabia and the Philippines. The country imports most of its oil from Saudi Arabia while the kingdom is the...
- SAUDI ARABIA ASSURES PHILIPPINES OF STEADY OIL SUPPLY.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News February 26, 2003 700+ words
...nations like the Philippines. Prince Turki replied that Saudi Arabia is not anticipating...agreed that the Philippines and Saudi Arabia have special relations...land. Both the Philippines and Saudi Arabia expressed a common...
- SAUDI ARABIA: Construction contract award for planned $35,000,000 gas plant...
- Newspaper article from: WWP-Business Opportunities in Africa & the Middle East February 1, 2003 700+ words
...Bagumbayan, Quezon City 110, Philippines International Direct Dial...Bagambayan, Quezon City 110, Philippines International Direct Dial...Ermita Manilla 1000, Philippines International direct dial...31688, Al-Khobar 31952, Saudi Arabia International Direct Dial...
- SAUDI ARABIA WILL REMAIN A PHILIPPINES LABOUR MARKET:OFFICIAL.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News December 10, 1999 700+ words
...Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia, already totalling...relations between the Philippines and Saudi Arabia. Al-Ghamdi said...invited to visit the Philippines. Meanwhile, Villar...Consultative Council of Saudi Arabia will form a Saudi...
- SAUDI ARABIA TO INVEST US$1 TRLN IN PHILIPPINES.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News May 15, 2006 700+ words
...May 15 Asia Pulse - Saudi Arabia is planning to invest US$1 trillion in the Philippines which would generate...official entourage to Saudi Arabia. According to Ng...his staff to visit the Philippines and explore tourism...
- PHILIPPINES SEEKS TO REDUCE ITS TRADE DEFICIT WITH SAUDI ARABIA.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News March 3, 2005 700+ words
...opportunities in the Philippines to narrow the trade...B. Varela said the Philippines can improve its supply...certified food products to Saudi Arabia. Last year, the country...Philippine exports to Saudi Arabia reached only US$339...Saudi exports to the Philippines last year ...
- Dr. Salih Bin Abdullah Bin Humaid: President of the Consultative Council of the...
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin December 8, 2004 700+ words
...Shura, is presently in the Philippines upon the invitation of Jose...Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines and the Saudi Arabian Majlis...parliamentary relations between the Philippines and Saudi Arabia. The particular focus of...
