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Where has the hope gone?

Where has the hope gone?

A. Lin Neumann
Aug 02, 2006
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It is hard to recall the hope sometimes because the Philippines is such a mess.

Birth rates are among the highest in the world, a third of the workforce is either unemployed or underemployed. The country is kept afloat financially by remittances from its chief export, Filipinos who labor as maids in Hong Kong, cooks in Saudi Arabia and doctors and nurses…

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