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Responsibilities of Migrant Sending States and their Migrants Abroad
Neil G. RuizResearch Fellow, The Brookings Institution
International Metropolis 2006Lisboa, Portugal
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Resources of Migrants and their Sending States
Resources of the Migrant:– Remittances– Returns
Resources of the Sending State:– Recruitment– Representation
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Philippines as the “Model” Migrant-Sending State
State Management of:
1. Recruitment:
4. Returns:
3. Remittances:
2. Representation:
Overseas Workers Welfare Administration
Legal Assistance AbroadAbsentee Voting Law of 2003Dual Citizenship Law of 2003
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration
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Overseas Filipino Workers Deployed(for every OFW, about 5 are waiting to be deployed)
0100000200000300000400000500000600000700000800000900000
1975197719791981198319851987198919911993199519971999
Year
Num
ber o
f OC
Ws
TotalLand-BasedSeafarers
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“Emigration” Keeping the Country under “Life Support”
ONE OF MOST EDUCATED LABOR FORCES BUT: Unemployment rate Highest among the “educated”
Total 5.4No grade completed 2.8Elementary 2.7High School 7.5College 9.3Not Reported 6.3
Unemployment Rate by Educational Attainment, 1980-1983 average
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0
10
20
30
40
50
60
1975 1988 2000
ElementaryHigh SchoolCollegeNot stated
% of OFWs
Educational Attainment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs)(as percentage of total OFWs)
Source: Philippine Statistical Yearbooks 1975-2000
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Incentives for Managing Emigration was an Outcome of Development Failure
Inability of State to Control:Private Higher Education and Make use of Human CapitalEducated UnemploymentLand Reform/agricultural resourcesBusiness Conglomerates/Landed Elite
Politically Bad for a Developing Democracy to Have the Middle Class Grow Abroad
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Efforts by Migrants/Diasporas Abroad
Brain Circulation– AnnaLee Saxenian, The New Argonauts:
Regional Advantage in a Global Economy(Harvard University Press, 2006)
Brain Gain Project I was Involved in:– MIT and Silicon Valley Filipino/Filipino-Americans created:
Philippine Emerging Startups Open Incorporated
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Government Industry
Venture Capital & Other Investors
Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs
BusinessAcademia
Science. & EngineeringAcademia
The Problem: Philippine entrepreneurial environment
Many “Silos”: Networks between “key”engines for technology
entrepreneurship are weak
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Our Solution: Creating the PESO Environment
Government Industry
Venture Capital & Other Investors
Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs
PESO
BusinessAcademia
Science. & EngineeringAcademia
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How it Works: Connecting High-Skilled Filipino Diaspora with Local Aspiring Technology Entrepreneurs
Connect– Networking/Knowledge
Transfer– Mentoring
Create– Business Plan Basics– Business Plan Competition
with Funding/Support
Catalyze– Post-Competition Support
to make plan a real business venture
Website: http://web.mit.edu/peso
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Expose Aspiring Entrepreneurs within and outside of the Philippines
Government Industry
Venture Capital Entrepreneurs
PESO
BusinessAcademia
Sci. & Eng’gAcademia
Helped launched and find startup capital for
10 tech companies and received key partnerships
and funding from prominent businesses & government
agencies
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Diaspora Efforts Still Limited: Rooted in Development Policy
This experience has shown that many policies within the Philippines are NOT friendly to “local” entrepreneurs
KEY LESSON: Laws and policies must be friendly to local entrepreneurs in order to
make use of Migrant “Returns” and to help businesses flourish
Development Policy Still Matters More than leveraging “migration” Alone
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Government must deal with “Development” Issues in order to Leverage Migration
“If a government cannot even leverage its own human capital for economic development, how can we expect it
to leverage the human capital from its emigrants abroad?”