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How migration lifts poor from poverty explored in Filipino family’s 30-year journey
A Good Provider is One Who Leaves, by Jason DeParle. Published by Viking. 4/5 stars
The Philippine economy has, relative to both its history and many other parts of the world, seen something of a recent boom. Yet although the poverty rate plunged by about a third in the three years to 2018, many Filipinos still leave their country for a future abroad.
Long-time New York Times reporter Jason DeParle explores global migration through a tightly woven biography of a Filipino migrant family in A…