{"id":51968,"date":"2015-06-16T18:17:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T10:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51968"},"modified":"2015-06-16T18:17:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T10:17:22","slug":"remittances-exceed-2-b-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/16\/remittances-exceed-2-b-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Remittances exceed $2-B mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41491\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_153178391.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41491\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_153178391-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_153178391-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_153178391.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The country&#8217;s remittances rose to\u00a0$2.01 billion in April , the earliest month in history exceeding the $2 billion mark, according to a data from the central bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe steady demand for skilled Filipino manpower provided support to the continued growth in remittance inflows,\u201d the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cash coming from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) grow by 5.1 percent this year.<\/p>\n<p>The growth indicates a slow down from the 11.3-percent expansion recorded in March.<\/p>\n<p>The total for the four months stood at $7.81 billion, which shows a 5.4 percent compared to the first quarter last year.<\/p>\n<p>The list of countries which are the main sources of the cash transfer includes the United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The country&#8217;s remittances rose to\u00a0$2.01 billion in April , the earliest month in history exceeding the $2 billion &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51968","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\/51968","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=51968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}