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  2. Overseas Filipino Worker - Wikipedia

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    700,000 of the world's mariners come from the Philippines, being the world's largest origin of seafarers; [11] In 2018, Filipino seafarers sent home the equivalent of US$6.14 billion. [ 12 ] Then-President Rodrigo Duterte announced that in 2021, the Philippines would limit the annual number of health professionals (including nurses) it sends ...

  3. Economic history of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Previously, the Philippines was seen as a trading post for international trade but in the nineteenth century it was developed both as a source of raw materials and as a market for manufactured goods. The economy of the Philippines rose rapidly and its local industries developed to satisfy the rising demands of an industrializing Europe.

  4. Overseas Filipinos - Wikipedia

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    As the Philippines among other countries who train and export labor repeatedly has faced failures in protecting labor rights, the deskilling of labor has increased on a global scale. A strong worldwide demand for healthcare workers causes many Filipinos to emigrate without ever getting hired or become deskilling while possibly raising their salary.

  5. History of globalization - Wikipedia

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    The historical origins of globalization (also known as historical globalization) are the subject of ongoing debate. Though many scholars situate the origins of globalization in the modern era (around the 19th century ), others regard it as a phenomenon with a long history, dating back thousands of years (a concept known as archaic globalization ).

  6. Foreign relations of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines is a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, East Asia Summit and Association of Caribbean States (as an observer). It was formerly a member of the now-defunct Latin Union and the SEATO. Declaring itself as independent of any major power block of nations, the Philippines is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement.

  7. Philippine House Special Committee on Globalization and WTO

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    As prescribed by House Rules, the committee's jurisdiction is on the effects on various social sectors of the World Trade Organization's policies and other actions to harness opportunities offered by globalization for economic development. [1]

  8. Economic globalization - Wikipedia

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    Economic globalization refers to the widespread international movement of goods, capital, services, technology and information. It is the increasing economic integration and interdependence of national, regional, and local economies across the world through an intensification of cross-border movement of goods, services, technologies and capital ...

  9. Multilingualism and globalization - Wikipedia

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    Globalization is commonly defined as the international movement toward economic, trade, technological, and communications integration and concerns itself with interdependence and interconnectedness. As a result of the interconnectedness brought on by globalization, languages are being transferred between communities, cultures, and economies at ...