hoeveel stuur jij op?

[Amice]

MANILA — Cash remittances from overseas Filipinos reached $2.11 billion in September, the highest since December last year, data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed.

The BSP said September's cash remittances increased by 7.9 percent year-on-year.

For the first nine months of the year, cash remittances went up 6.1 percent to $17.65 billion compared to the same period last year.

Total personal remittances, which represent the sum of net compensation, household-to-household transfers in cash and kind, and capital transfers of overseas Filipino workers, rose 6.7 percent to $19.56 billion in January to September from a year earlier.

The central bank expects remittances this year to grow 5 percent from last year's record $22.97 billion.

The major sources of cash remittances in September were overseas workers in the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan, Canada and Hong Kong.

This year's BOP surplus is expected to reach $1.1 billion, narrower than the estimate of $3 billion made in December, due largely to higher import requirements, partly driven by reconstruction efforts after a strong typhoon late last year.

The government is targeting 6.5 percent to 7.5 percent gross domestic product growth in 2014 after last year's 7.2 percent expansion, the fastest in Southeast Asia. -- With Reuters

Zolang dat nog steeds meer wordt zal de mentaliteit hier ook niet veranderen en steeds meer richting graaicultuur gaan met meer luie donders en list en bedrog om maar meer "gratis" geld binnen te halen.

[LMBen]

MANILA — Cash and non-cash remittances from Filipinos overseas grew by 6.9 percent in October driven by sustained demand for workers abroad.

Data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed that remittances in October surged to $2.46 billion, bringing the 10-month total to $22.02 billion.

"Personal remittances continued to draw strength from the sustained rise in transfers from land-based workers with work contracts of one year or more at 5.6 percent as well as sea-based and land-based workers with work contracts of less than one year at 8.1 percent," the BSP said.

Cash remittances increased to $2.22 billion in October, a 7 percent jump from the $2.08 billion posted in the same month last year.

In the 10 months to October, remittances by Filipinos abroad grew 6.2 percent to $19.87 billion from a year ago.

The central bank said the "steady demand for skilled and professional Filipino manpower supported the growth in remittance."

It added that banks are continuing its efforts to provide remittance services for Filipinos abroad.

Most of the cash remittances came from the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates.

The BSP, citing data from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, said job orders reached 768,741 as of October, more than a third of which were for service, production, and technical workers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Taiwan, and Qatar.

Last year, cash remittances reached $22.97 billion, and made up more than 8 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).

This year, the BSP is expecting remittances to grow by 5.5 percent compared to last year's figures.

[nils]

Veel oud klasgenoten van mijn vrouw die in het buitenland werken, sturen het geld naar huis om een ouderlijk huis te bouwen. Alleen hebben ze naderhand dan niks meer voor hunzelf over.