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...about 8.7 million Filipinos - some 10% of the population - are registered with the government as overseas workers. Thousands of workers leave the country every day, and half of the new hires are women, flying off to earn salaries that are propping up the country. Last year alone, overseas workers sent home $17 billion in cash remittances, according to the World Bank. "Without the remittances, our economy will instantly collapse," says Dr. Honey Carandang, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of the Philippines. "The whole country knows...
...Sight Officially, the Philippines knows it can't sustain having 10% of its population gone for decades at a time, particularly when a worldwide economic recession means fewer jobs overseas and smaller remittance checks sent home. During an October meeting on global migration in Manila, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned that millions of migrants were at risk of losing their jobs in the wake of the financial crisis - grim news for both individual Filipinos and their government. By law, the government isn't allowed to promote overseas employment. But the Department of Labor does arrange state-to-state...
...seem to have crew-cuts, the girls shoulder-length hair and headbands. Chris Ballesteros perches on one of windowsills and takes notes on his laptop. In order to make it to the White House, I asked Porter, do you have to be more or less a charming egomaniac? Porter sent me back a politely worded rebuke. Ambition was not the relevant quality. “None of the three presidents for whom I worked set out, secretly or otherwise, to become president. But they were prepared for leadership when it came,” he wrote...
...removal from power to be released. This pragmatic acknowledgement that little can be done with Mugabe still a primary player seems justified: Mugabe has managed to maintain his grasp on Zimbabwe for this long. Yet Western nations cannot give in to cynicism. Some of that earmarked money must be sent to the WFP, for example, to help address Zimbabwe’s immediate food crisis, even if they might face resistance from Mugabe, who blocked a similar appeal for emergency funds in 2005. From a general perspective, the global community must find hope where it can with Zimbabwe...
Dunham, whom Obama called Toot (a form of Tutu, the Hawaiian word for "grandparent"), never showed self-pity or fear as she faced the end of her life, Soetoro-Ng writes. But Dunham could be wickedly funny. "When she saw the number of flowers that had been sent to her," Soetoro-Ng writes, "she said, 'Oh my ... with all of this hullabaloo, it's going to be embarrassing if I DON'T die.' I gave her a chuckle and of course told her that I wouldn't at all mind such an embarrassment, and then I invited her to stay...