 The debts they incur to secure employment overseas may lock them in a cycle of abuse and exploitation.There is criticism in the Philippines that the country is one of the biggest human traffickers in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.In the "Manila Standard", Alejandro Del Rosario criticised the government for continuing its 1960s policy of labour export instead of focussing on domestic production and job creation (allowing the program to expand, contributing to the brain drain).