Based on data collected with 27 Filipino American veterans, we found that the primary motivation for veterans' immigration from the Philippines in late life is economic. When Filipino veterans decide to come to the United States, they do so to collect the financial benefits of citizenship and ...
Today, it would be difficult to find a community that has been unaffected by globalization, yet its effects are still unknown to many people. This paper is an attempt to bring the subject to the awareness of educators while particularly focusing on those in the Philippines. It is ironic that...
Globalization and the Indigenous Peoples: Focus on Malaysia, the Philippines, and MexicoglobalizationIndigenous Peoples (IPsMalaysiaPhilippinesMexicoDevelopmentThe adverse effects of climate change are now being experienced by the people without any apparent solution despite joint efforts of the world's ...
To make the products for the superbrands to put their logo on, the free-trade or export-processing zones (EPZ) have emerged. An example is the Cavite EPZ, the largest trade-free zone in Philippines, which produces goods only for the e...
Most of the literature views bank globalization as the increasing presence of foreign banks in host countries and estimates the effects of such foreign presence on the host countries’ bank performance, be they foreign or domestic (i.e., the host-country effect). We expand the scope of study...
What are the positive effects of globalization in the Philippines? Evidence suggests that globalisation has a positive effect on thecountry's economic growth and employment. In particular, trade openness and foreign portfolio flows have contributed to higher per capita GDP growth in the Philippines, ...
Both the Philippines and Indonesia have experienced ongoing economic and social crises for years [1], thus, migrant domestic workers may well have traded precari- ous lives in their home countries for precarious lives in Malaysia, with all the attendant pressures and health effects associated with ...
International Trade and Welfare Effects of Biotechnology Innovations: GM Food Crops in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines Purpose - The chapter examines the international welfare effects of biotech crop adoption, based on a transversal literature review and a case study of the... GP ...
This article discusses the effects of cultural globalization on urban identities, and concentrates on a case study of Amsterdam. The theoretical part of the paper defines cultural globalization and outlines its effects on localities, including the ways in which the images of localities are transformed...
Although the growth benefits of trade are increasingly recognized, many analysts are legitimately concerned about the effects of trade liberalization on income distribution. In our research, however, we document thatthe growth benefits of increased trade are, on average, widely shared—we have found ...