Administrator Carlos Cao of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said deployment of land- and sea-based Filipino workers for the first 10 months of the year posted a five percent growth compared to the same period last year.
“Our deployment statistics are still very good even as we face so many challenges this year,” he said. “In fact, we have sent 1,350,000 Filipino workers to over 200 countries in the first 10 months of 2011.”
Cao said overseas deployment from January to October this year was five percent higher than the recorded 1,281,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) deployed during the same period in 2010.
Based on POEA preliminary data, land-based workers comprised the greater bulk of the total deployment in the first 10 months of 2011, he added.
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