Remittances’ Impact On Philippines Household
Remittances’ Impact On Philippines Household

Author(s): Eugene Agoh, Régine N. Soppo, Vilmantė Kumpikaitė, Irma Banevičienė
Contributor(s): Vilmantė Kumpikaitė (Editor)
Subject(s): Labor relations, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: migration; remittances; households; Philippines;
Summary/Abstract: Philippine is the highest labour exporter among its neighbours in the East and South-East Asia (Pratt, 2018). Consequently, diaspora Filipinos send about 34 billion USD as remittances from around the world making Philippine the third highest remittance receiver in the world just behind India and Mexico (Bank, 2019). Therefore, remittances play an important role in Philippines households. After analysis of 17 papers, which focus on this issue, positive and negative sides of remittances; to Philippines households are highlighted.

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