Starting in 19 72, then president and dict ferdinand marcos, he pivoted the philippine economy towards a labor export policy. And one of the reasons why the government wants to do that is because when they work overseas, it lessens the pressure to provide domestic employment opportunities in the philippines. So some people praise that kind of economy a but many others also criticise it as there's a social cost to have your a people being exported overseas. You're separating, yes, from their children. Am you are exporting among the best and brightest amt to work overseas. Ye. The philippines still exports nurses, not only to the united states, but to many