In the first place, our people are already all over the world long before GATS [was framed]. On the other hand there is demand on so many countries for Filipino workers, from the highly skilled to the level of limited skills. |
It is to our advantage that Philippine negotiators did not take any strong position [on mode IV]; we have no advantage so why open it up? |
What other countries like India want is to liberalize [mode IV to include] other workers in general, but if you open that up, competition will become bigger, from India, from Eastern Europe. |
When you open up mode four to include migrant workers of all types, I do not think it will benefit us as we are already there. |