India, SE Asia, Japan. All you need to get a RH seat in a Boeing or Airbus is a CPL and 200 hours plus of course being a local. In Australia the situation has never changed in 30 years. A huge oversupply of pilots means the lousiest operators can pick and choose which means even with 1000 hours you are behind the mob. Hence the absolute desperation faced by new CPL's who are forced to almost fly for free or go on the dole. PNG used to be a mecca for new CPL with 200 hours. But the oversupply of pilots in Australia has steadily pushed up the minimum PNG operators requirements to at least 1000 hours. The insurance companies are partly to blame but if pilots were in really short supply in PNG just watch the insurance premiums drop.
To get an idea of the oversupply of CPL's in OZ just look at the number of three and four bar "captains" hanging around the coffee machines at the flying schools!