{"id":38579,"date":"2015-01-16T00:28:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T16:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=38579"},"modified":"2015-01-16T00:28:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T16:28:47","slug":"remittance-growth-slows-down-to-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/16\/remittance-growth-slows-down-to-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Remittance growth slows down to 2%"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33008\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33008\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Wednesday said that cash remittances last year in November only increased by 2 percent, the slowest rate recorded in almost six years.<\/p>\n<p>The cash remittances in November rose to $2.122 billion from $2.08 billion in the same period in 2013. According to BSP\u2019s data, this is the slowest recorded after the 0.1 percent increase in January 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe continued deployment of skilled manpower remained a key driver of the sustained growth of remittance flows,\u201d the BSP said.<\/p>\n<p>Total personal remittances increased to 6.2 percent in January to November from a year earlier. BSP said that they expected the remittances in 2014 to rise by 5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Majority of cash remittances in November came from the following countries: United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan, Canada and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Wednesday said that cash remittances last year in November only increased &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":27603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}