“That is the ultimate goal–that we have 10 million OFWs and we want them to be back here and the way to be able to do that is with the jobs that are available here,” President Benigno Aquino III said in the live interview on the YouTube Worldview series Friday.
The first question raised in the interview was by Rey Ambler. He asked, “Mr. President, what can you do so that Filipinos will start to work here and for our country instead of migrating and working abroad?”
“We’re trying to attract investors both domestic and international,” Aquino said, adding that his government is likewise tapping the outsourcing industry as one of its sources to be able to create more local jobs.
“Every time I go abroad, for instance, perhaps two-thirds of the entire mission is spent trying to get investors to come in. And we have had successes,” Aquino said.
China visit windfall
Among the accomplishments that Aquino cited was his recent trip to China, where he got billions of dollars in investments for the Philippines.
“The most recent is the state visit to China wherein we got about 1.2 or 1.8 billion dollars worth of new investments that conceivably can become about 11 to 12 billion,” he said.
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