{"id":45001,"date":"2015-03-17T17:06:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T09:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45001"},"modified":"2015-03-19T01:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T17:00:32","slug":"remittances-grow-by-0-5-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/17\/remittances-grow-by-0-5-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Remittances grow by 0.5% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28484\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_160891166.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28484 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_160891166-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_160891166\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_160891166-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_160891166-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_160891166.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Remittances from Filipinos living and working abroad increased by 0.5 percent to\u00a0$1.814 billion in January from $1.804 billion in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The figure posts the slowest pace of growth since the expansion to 0.1 percent in January 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas yesterday said that\u00a0cash remittances from land-based workers abroad amounted to $1.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, remittances from sea-based workers amounted to\u00a0$500 million.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the funds were sent from the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContinued demand for skilled Filipino manpower contributed to the steady inflow of remittances,\u201d the BSP said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoreover, the continued efforts of bank and non-bank remittance service providers to expand their international and domestic market coverage through their network of remittance business partners worldwide provide support to steady remittance flows,\u201d the central bank added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Remittances from Filipinos living and working abroad increased by 0.5 percent to\u00a0$1.814 billion in January from $1.804 billion &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":28484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45001","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=45001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}