“Expat dev workers, after a day or two in the PH, believe they know what’s bugging the country.” -veteran male Filipino aid worker The local – expat relationship Context Here we continue to explore the results of our survey of Filipino aid and development workers.  Look here and here and here and here and here for our preious posts and here for our methodology notes. As we get to the end of our data analysis we will write one ‘executive summary’ report, likely in several weeks.  Our ultimate goal is to have the full results presented in article form. How locals think they are viewed by expats One of the main goals of our survey was to explore the relationship between local aid and development workers and their expat colleagues.  Here is some of what we found. Most of our sample (64%) work directly with expats in the same office or space and the vast … Continue reading The local – expat relationship: its complicated.