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Assessment Task 8-1: True or False

1. The document contains 10 true/false questions about topics related to globalization, world cities, population changes, and global demographic issues. 2. It asks the reader to interview an OFW named George Aquino from Saudi Arabia to understand his experiences and perspectives working overseas. 3. George worked overseas primarily to have more job opportunities and provide a better life for his family than was available in the Philippines at the time. He also learned to speak Arabic while working in Saudi Arabia.

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Assessment Task 8-1: True or False

1. The document contains 10 true/false questions about topics related to globalization, world cities, population changes, and global demographic issues. 2. It asks the reader to interview an OFW named George Aquino from Saudi Arabia to understand his experiences and perspectives working overseas. 3. George worked overseas primarily to have more job opportunities and provide a better life for his family than was available in the Philippines at the time. He also learned to speak Arabic while working in Saudi Arabia.

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Assessment Task 8-1

True or False.
1. With increased attention being paid to processes of globalization during subsequent years, these
world cities came to be known as global cities. True
2. A true global city is balanced between four pillars of urban life. True
3. The rise of a global urban network in the context of a major geographical transformation of the
capitalist world-economy. True

4. The prime purpose of the world city concept is that it seeks to build an analytical framework that
searches to deflect attention from the role of territorial states in the reproduction of this spatial
inequality. True

5. Population changes have potentially huge implications for the pace and progress of economic
development. True
6. Life expectancy as the estimate of the average number of additional years that a person of a given
age can expect to live. True
7. The developing world has seen significant reductions in infant and child mortality over the past
50 years. True
8. The demographic boom and uneven population growth in different regions lead to the
aggravation of associated global problems. True
9. Global migration can be understood as a cause and effect relationship, though the causes are just
as numerous as their effects. True

10. The intensity of the global demographic problem derives from its environmental implications: the
current population of the planet exceeds by ten times the limit the Earth can support. True

Assessment Task 8-2


INSTRUCTIONS. To get a first-hand knowledge of the experiences of Overseas Filipino
Workers (OFWs), interview an OFW. Use the guide question below.
Note: You can interview an OFW you know through private messages, calls or video call to avoid
going out of your home due to the restrictions of community quarantine. Data will be treated with
confidentiality following the data privacy act.

Name of OFW: George Aquino.


Country where he/she worked: Saudi Arabia
Reason for working overseas: “The reason for this is that there are no job opportunities in the
Philippines before, only few. Then there was the no fair dealing in some company of the Philippines. To
give my family a better life.”
Significant experiences while working abroad: Learning their language which is "Arabic".
Given the chance to work in our country, will you accept the job? why?
“If I was given a chance to work in my country, I will accept it depends on the salary. If it
reached my standard or my preferred salary, I wouldn’t refuse it.”

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