OVERSEAS Filipinos number 10.2 million as of 2013, per the global mapping done by the Commission on Filipinos Overseas. Filipinos are the country’s number one export. The labor export policy started in the “mid-1970s, when rising oil prices caused a boom in contract migrant labor in the Middle East. The government of President Ferdinand Marcos, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, saw an opportunity to export young men left unemployed by the stagnant economy and established a system to regulate and encourage labor outflows.”
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