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As the Philippines marks the 50th year of its labor export program and emerges from a global pandemic that chilled migration in unprecedented ways, the country is doubling down on its ambitions to serve as a provider of workers to the world. Emigration has been central to the Philippines’ economic growth since the 1974 Labor Code (Presidential Decree 442), which contained provisions regulating and encouraging the migration of laborers. Since then, millions of Filipino workers have sent back billions of dollars in remittances each year, creating a feedback loop in which emigration has spurred development, which in turn has made international migration seem all the more attractive.