The Philippine economy's continued expansion has also been driven by the business processing outsourcing (BPO) sector and the steady inflow of remittances . Filipino employees are particularly attractive to BPO employers because they tend to be very fluent in Western-accented English. The large Filipino diaspora contributes greatly to the country's favorable balance of payments and helps empower the country's rising middle class.
With a multitude of benefits and positive results from reforms spearheaded by Philippine President Aquino,the country should continue to be one of the fastest growing countr ies in ASEAN as well as the one of the most attractive for FDI in the coming years.