The Puzzle of the Filipino Laborer

Here's an interesting piece from the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

EVERY YEAR, the AIM Policy Center participates in a World Competitiveness Survey conducted by International Management Development of Switzerland. Every year, the same puzzle appears.

Why is it that, according to global respondents, the Filipino is the number one most preferred labor in the world, and yet, the same survey says that the productivity of Philippine labor, while they are in the Philippines, ranks 58th, or third to the lowest, among the 60 countries surveyed?