Where Do You Think The Rp Stands

[cebu rocks]

Ok its been touched on in other threads but where do you see the Phils ?

 

3rd world  or a emerging 2nd world county or just a few years to 1st world .

 

 

 

[Alby]

The Philippines will never move up from being a 3rd world country simply because of the rampant corruption (at all levels) and it's culture!

You fix those two and you would get an expensive country :)

It's cheap now for a reason! :)

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[Call me bubba]

The Philippines will never move up from being a 3rd world country

.....NEVER.....

Not in my child's lifetime nor their child's lifetime.

 THEY DONT have the will or desire to "improve", they do have the manpower , the "brains" to do so ..

BUT.. i will not discuss the politics

.church judicial system,

the 100-300 families that"control" most of the economical development 

or Corruption,, if those items I will not discuss could be changed then...

WATCH OUT WORLD here comes the PHILIPPINES

[Jack Peterson]

WATCH OUT WORLD here comes the PHILIPPINES

 

 

  We have that already Don't we? They are called Oversea's Workers.

 

 

JP

[MikeB]

Corruption is a big problem but there are other corrupt countries that have progressed far ahead of the Philippines. You also have to consider that the country has more natural calamities than any other in the world. Simply stated, the economy cannot support all the people. The RH Bill was signed into law in Dec, 2012; before it could even begin to be implemented the opposing forces intimidated the Supreme Court into issuing a temporary restraining order to decide if it was constitutional.  After countless legislators had debated this for 15 years they needed to debate some more. Finally in April of this year the main provisions were declared constitutional. Currently the SC has issued a “status quo ante” (the way things were before) order that suspends the implementation indefinitely. The key provisions are education and free access to contraceptives for the poor. Even IF it is ever implemented it will take a couple hundred years to see tangible results.

 

My best friend grew up here and escaped to the US to work. When I came here with him for the first time in 2002 he gave me the best advice I’ve heard on the Philippines, “Have fun, enjoy the good and forget about the bad. You can’t change it. It has always been like this, it always will be”.

[robert k]

I've said it before and I will trot it out again. When I look at successful countries, I see countries who make durable goods for their own consumption and export. I don't see much of that in the Philippines. I see malls, selling imported items where the profit goes to the foreign manufacturer, a middleman if any, the store owner, the mall owner, with a pittance paid to those working in the shops and custodians for the mall. Most of the consumer goods in the mall will not last 5 years anyway. What profit that stays in the country goes into, you guessed it, building more malls to sell imported goods. What is needed is some medium and heavy industry and until it shows up, nothing will change. I think it would be great for the Philippines to build the old aircooled VW Beetle under license from scratch. Mine the ore, smelt it, draw the wire, stamp the body, cast and forge the heavy parts. Filipinos all along the way earning a better than menial labor wage so they could become a market for their own product. They could also lessen their plight of being a dumping ground for Japan and other countries unwanted vehicles and improve their trade balance in the process. Maybe even export some beetles or at least parts. Economically, the Philippines is still a colony, a source for labor [OFW] more than raw materials maybe as in the classic scenario but they are still a captive market for the value added imported goods. The malls just serve to siphon off any loose money that gets introduced into the system. I realise that malls are needed so people can have a day out and at least look at things they have difficulty buying, but it's more bread and circuses.

 

The Philippines is not just a third world country, they are still a colony, an economic colony to the world. Worse than just being a colony, they are a colony with many overseers both internal and external. I agree with the posts above that this will not change in even our grandchildrens lifetime, it can go on so it will go on and this makes me truly sad when it hits me in the face (again), but you can't dwell on such things all the time, you have to look for the good and there is some to find in small ways and on a personal level.

[Dave Hounddriver]

Since the end of the Cold War, the original definition of the term First World is no longer necessarily applicable. There are varying definitions of the First World, however, they follow the same idea. John D. Daniels, past president of the Academy of International Business, defines the First World to be consisting of "high-income industrial countries."[4] Scholar and Professor George J. Bryjak defines the First World to be the "modern, industrial, capitalist countries of North America and Europe."[5] L. Robert Kohls, former director of training for the U.S. Information Agency and the Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C. uses First World and "fully developed" as synonyms

 

Using these variations I cannot see the Philippines ever becoming 'first world'

[Methersgate]

I agree with everyone who has posted here. Alas!

 

None of my Filipino friends expect to see worthwhile change in their lifetimes.

 

It is even worse; the Philippines exports labour on a gigantic scale - the evils of this pass unremarked, but they are huge.

 

The strain on family life is intolerable - children grow up without a parent. Marital infidelity is not just common; it is normal, both amongst those who go abroad and those who stay at home.

 

The economic consequences of labour export are if anything worse; much of money earned by OFWs stays in the country where they work, as they need to subsist, and ALL the value added by their labour stays abroad.

 

At the last election, just ONE city - Olongapo - threw out its "dynasty", Everywhere else, the dynasts were re-elected.

The future of the Philippines is as a Chinese colony - so enjoy it whilst you still can.

 

[Jack Peterson]

The future of the Philippines is as a Chinese colony - so enjoy it whilst you still can.

 

 

Maybe a US State Who knows?

[Dave Hounddriver]

The future of the Philippines is as a Chinese colony

 

Perhaps they have enough to worry about at home in Hong Kong