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Philippines, finalizing the Philippine Qualifications Framework

(PQF) was geared towards the implementation of the new
K-to-12 educational system that began just last June 2016.

But given the Philippines’ institutionalized labor

migration facilitation program (said to be a global model for
migration management), Filipino skilled professionals had gone
to ASEAN countries even prior to the signing of the MRAs.

But whether it is before or after the signing of the MRAs, the
fact is that the ASEAN region is not a preferred destination of

seven groups of skilled Filipino professionals . The notable
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observation from the 1996-to-2014 POEA data (see Table 1)
is that deployment from 2008 to 2014 had been over a

thousand consistently. Not surprisingly, Southeast Asia’s two
richest economies —Singapore and Malaysia— received the

most number of newhire skilled Filipino professionals.

18 The reference here is the new-hire workers (excluding those in the tourism
sector), since that is the publicly-available data from the Philippine Overseas
Employment Administration (POEA).

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