Having the entitlement of being a globalized area is one of Manila city’s long standing

desire. Manila is at the middle of urbanization for the past years and it is acclaimed as
one of the world’s most densely populated city, and continues to grow at bigger space.
According to the World Bank in 2017 Manila serves as the pioneer to one of the fastest
growing economies in the world. Filipinos, especially those who lives in Manila, travel all
over the world as Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) and they work as nurses, nannies,
construction workers and sailors. This contributes to the mass labour boosting the
global service economy..
The emergence of infrastructures such as 5 star hotels and commercial spaces and free
port indicates that Manila is making its way to fulfill its desire to be a global city. With the
help of those industry mentioned the local economy continue to grow upward and the
competency of Filipino employees with the English language and the western culture
made them ideal employees to the BPO (Business Processing Outsourcing) industry
with a much better accent than Indians.
The Philippines are now overtaking India as the top call center country in the world.
Many Filipinos are common users of social networks and cellphone texting, which
makes the job in call centers quite natural for many them. The BPO industry contributed
a lot for Manila to be a competitive and globalized area.
However, for a city to achieve the title of being global, it must have values and ideas
that will have an impact of the rest of the world. There are several ways in which a city
can be considered as a global city. Firstly, a city should have a combination of powerful,
strong and unique culture, style and history.
This is because culture is one of important businesses in a city that provides many
tourist attractions. Second, a global city is a city of demographic and economic change.
It contains international organizations, different firms such as law firms, headquarters for
the multinational countries as well as stock exchanges that influences the world’s
economy.
Also, in a global city, the cost of living is better than other cities and there are a number
of billionaires. For instance New York City, it is the most populous city in the United
States of America. It is also the center of international business, a command center in
the world’s economy and also the main center for business such as legal services,
world trade, insurance, banking etc.