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		<title>Manpower head sees big layoffs globally</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agence France-Presse
Inquirer.net

NEW DELHI &#8212; Employee numbers will be cut sharply in many Western nations as companies pare costs to survive the global financial crisis, according to an international recruitment company boss.
Layoff plans are expected to gain momentum over the next six weeks as companies finish their budget-making exercises for the coming year, Jeffrey Joerres, chief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firms urged: Set up more safety nets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ripchord</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernadette Parco
Cebu Daily News
EVEN with mitigating measures in place, the Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas (DOLEe-7) said business establishments need to set up more safety nets to cushion the impact of a global recession.
Elias Cayanong, DOLE-7 director, cited a report from the National Economic Development Authority (Neda) which said that the country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citi sees Philippine ’09 growth at 2.7%</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ripchord</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Philippine Daily Inquirer
American banking giant Citigroup expects the Philippine economy to grow at a slow 2.7 percent pace next year as an imminent global recession curbs exports and overseas remittance inflows.
The government’s target is 3.7-4.7 percent as recently approved by the inter-agency Development Budget Coordination Committee.
“We think the downside would depend largely on the slack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filipinos feel ‘worse off now’&#8211;poll</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ripchord</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel Guinto
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines &#8212; More Filipinos still consider themselves and the entire country to be worse off now, compared to last year, and see even tougher times ahead, according to an independent survey.
Moreover, nearly eight out of 10 Filipinos (79 percent), consider the economy to be &#8220;worse now&#8221; than it was three years ago, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new concept of entrepreneurship</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ripchord</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Informal Sector]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Niceto Poblador
INQUIRER.net
ENTREPRENEURSHIP HAS long been regarded as an essential ingredient of economic development, especially in emerging markets. I fully agree. This observation is especially true in today’s innovation-driven “new economy.”
But I have some misgivings about certain commonly held views regarding entrepreneurship and by extension, entrepreneurship development.
My question is: What form should entrepreneurship take in today’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DoLE orders strict safety checks on work sites nationwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ripchord</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaux Ortiz
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE) Following the latest deaths this month at a Korean construction firm in Subic, the labor department has intensified its inspection of all establishments to ensure compliance with safety standards and prevent the recurrence of fatal work-related accidents.
Labor Secretary Marianito Roque has directed all DoLE regional offices to ensure that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exporters see bleak 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ripchord</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cris Evert Lato
Cebu Daily News
CEBU CITY, Philippines - Entrepreneur Nelson Bascones has been delivering seafood and marine products to the restaurants and institutions in the United States and Japan since 1996.
Since food is a basic commodity, he experienced good business operations with occasional market slowdown in between brought about by oversupply and competition.
But no challenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RP hopes to fill up jobs in S. Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ripchord</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Overseas Employment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Veronica Uy
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines &#8212; Even as the global recession is hitting South Korea&#8217;s export-dependent factories, the Philippines still hopes to fill 10,000 jobs left unfilled from last year&#8217;s employment permit system (EPS), administrator Jennifer Manalili of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration said Wednesday.
The memorandum of agreement that allows EPS &#8212; the government-to-government system by which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Chamber foresees no recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ripchord</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Christian V. Esguerra
Philippine Daily Inquirer
An official of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, or AmCham, on Monday downplayed the possibility of an economic recession in the country next year as a result of the global financial crisis.
“I don’t expect it to happen in the Philippines next year,” John Forbes, chairman of the AmCham [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan in recession; Citi lays off 52,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ripchord</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters
Inquirer.net
WASHINGTON — Japan on Monday became the latest major economy to fall into recession, and Citigroup said it would cut 52,000 jobs, one of the largest layoffs in history, adding to worries the global economic slump might deepen.
After a weekend meeting of the world&#8217;s 20 largest economies failed to come up with specific new stimulus [...]]]></description>
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