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    Examining the DFA's Economic Security Strategy and the Elusiveness of Stable Job Creation

    Casaclang, Rowell G. | August 2017
    Abstract
    A perennial policy challenge facing the Philippines is job generation. Despite the recent trend of economic expansion, the economy has fallen short of creating more and better jobs. For its part, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has crafted its strategic plans to include job generation in line with the economic security pillar. Back in 2002, former Foreign Affairs Secretary Blas Ople had high hopes that the DFA will be an “effective instrument” to help reduce unemployment from 4 million to 1.5 million by 2013. However a decade later 2.8 million Filipinos remained unemployed. That “target” stays unreached by the end of 2016 as 2.4 million Filipinos are still jobless; thus begging the following questions: Why is stable job creation so difficult to achieve? Where does the DFA’s economic security strategy figure in the country’s development framework? DFA’s economic security strategies went through many changes as the Department strove to produce favorable outcomes concerning job creation as well as poverty reduction. In the DFA Strategic Plan 2003-2013, searching new markets for the country’s local goods and services and using official development assistance (ODA) were identified as key strategies. These strategies were part of DFA’s mandate as the main actor in promoting development diplomacy, which entails designing and harnessing foreign relations in the active pursuit of rapid and sustained long-term growth of the Philippine economy.
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    Casaclang, Rowell G.. 2017. Examining the DFA's Economic Security Strategy and the Elusiveness of Stable Job Creation. © Foreign Service Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7441.
    Keywords
    Economic development
    Standard of living
    Trade development
    Employment
    Performance appraisal
    Needs assessment
    Input output analysis|ADB
    Employment
    Performance appraisal
    Project failure
    Project impact
    Project appraisal
    Career development
    Vocational training
    Development Challenges
    Asian Development Bank
    Development Management
    Skills Development
    Performance Evaluation
    Evaluation Methods
    Evaluation
    Job Evaluation
    Staff Development
    Labor policy
    Manpower policy
    Promotions
    Career development
    Job analysis
    Participative management
    Grievance procedures
    Supervisors
    Vocational guidance
    Labor policy
    Rural manpower policy
    Career development
    Applications for positions
    Affirmative action programs
    Labor turnover
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