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South-East Asia and the Pacific Multidisciplinary Advisory Team

Table of Contents

• A. Preface
• B. The impact of the Asian crisis on Filipinos' employment prospects abroad: A preliminary assessment, by W. R. Bohning
  1. Introduction
  2. Flows and stock
  3. Remittances and incomes
  4. The general impact of the crisis dissected
  5. Return: Towards a conceptual framework
  6. A glimps at individual countries or territories
     • How will their economies be affected?
     • How will Filipinos be affected?
       • Hong Kong, China
       • Japan
       • Republic of Korea
       • Malaysia
       • Singapore
       • Taiwan, China
       • Thailand
       • Other countries
  7. A refined estimate of Filipino losses of employment abroad
  8. Legislative basis to deal with return
  9. Taking care of return migrants - OWWA
     • Economic benefits
     • Psychological and social well-being
     • Skills and career development
  10. Conclusions

• References
• Tables
  1. Philippines: Land-based workers leaving through authorized channels, 1990-1997
  2. Estimated stocks of Filipinos in selected countries, mid-1997
  3. Labour income remitted to the Philippines from the 10 most important countries, 1990-97 (In US Dollars)
  4. Reduction in countries' or territories' employment and proportionate reductions in Filipino employment opportunities,
     middle of 1997 to the end of 1999 (numbers rounded to nearest '00)
  5. Refinement of hypotheses concerning the reduction in Filipino employment opportunities
     in certain Asian countries or territories middle of 1997 to the end of 1999 (numbers rounded to the nearest '00)

• Graph
  1. Philippines: land-based workers leaving through authorized channels, 1990-97

• Scheme
  1. Main determinants and weights concerning flows of Filipinos to Asian countries or territories affected by the crisis, and of their preference there

• C. Appendix tables and graphs, by R. Stryk
  • Table: Real GDP in local currencies, size of the labour force and employment elasticities for selected Asian countries, 1986-1996
  • Graphs: Past real GDP growth and the predicted influence of the crisis in selected Asian countries
    • Hong Kong, China
    • Japan
    • Republic of Korea
    • Malaysia
    • Singapore
    • Taiwan, China
    • Thailand
• Footnotes

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