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OFW
families saving; junk new cars, homes
LOS
BANOS, LAGUNA (OFW Journalism Consortium)–RECENT central
bank data doesn’t bode too well for those selling cars and
houses to families of overseas Filipino workers. Majority of OFW
families are either deep in debt to lenders for the overseas stint
or they prefer to save money.
Whatever’s in between the latter two major spending, as
cited in the recent consumer expectations survey of the Bangko
Sentral ng Pilipinas, are spent on food and education.
JEREMAIAH
M. OPINIANO
reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium®.
Full
story
Dividend
from labor migration mulled
MANILA (OFW
Journalism Consortium)–CAN you monetize a child’s separation
for more than a year from her mother working overseas?
Such question has not only kept both mother and child sleepless
at night but economists like Alvin Ang burning the midnight oil.
With most of the eight million Filipinos overseas linked to their
country one way or another, Ang said it’s time to face up
to the socio-economic cost of such profitable arrangement. JEREMAIAH
M. OPINIANO reports
for the OFW Journalism Consortium®.
Full
story
Returning
doctors injecting fresh intake on annual RP health missions
MANDALUYONG
CITY (OFW Journalism Consortium)–FOR over 20 years, surgeon
Domingo Alvear eludes the chilly American winter and warms up in
motherland Philippines by joining other doctors for weeks-long medical
missions.
This is the season –December to February– for these
mostly US-originated medical, surgical, or dental missions to the
Philippines.
But Alvear’s experience with annual health missions in poor
communities here is chilling his desires for improved health service
delivery. JEREMAIAH
M. OPINIANO
reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium®.
Full
story
Resurrected
group may lure more Pinoy scientists home
MAKATI
CITY (OFW Journalism Consortium)–MORE than money, members
of the resurrected Science and Technology Advisory Council (Stac)
of the Philippines want what’s inside the minds of Filipino
scientists abroad. They are hoping to find there the methods to
resuscitate the country’s struggling science and technology
sector.
After nearly three decades of fizzling out, the Stac was again jumpstarted
in view of the need to sustain record growth of the economy not
only through government spending and private consumption. JEREMAIAH
M. OPINIANO and ISAGANI
DE LA PAZ reports
for the OFW Journalism Consortium®. Full
story
Pinay
wives living out Korean telenovellas
QUEZON
CITY (OFW Journalism Consortium)–FOR nearly a decade, more
than six thousand Filipino women are living out what’re usually
depicted in Korean romance telenovellas.
It is life imitating art, according to the latest study on cross-border
marital arrangements in Korea or inter-racial marriages between
Koreans and other nationalities.
A 443-respondent survey done last September that covered various
nationalities, including some 73 Filipina spouses, bared that “love”
was the primary reason for the women acceding to marriage. JEREMAIAH
M. OPINIANO reports for the OFW Journalism
Consortium®. Full
story
How
to take care of your money?
Read
the stories of the OFW Journalism Consortium on financial literacy
for Filipinos abroad and their families back home. Click
here
2006
Special Newspacket on Financial Literacy in Overseas Filipinos
by the OFW Journalism Consortium cited in the newsletter Migrant
Remittances
(published by the United States Agency for International Development
[USAID]-Microenterprise Development Office and the United Kingdom
Department for International Development [DFID])
http://www.livelihoods.org/hot_topics/docs/Migrant%20Remittances_Oct06.pdf
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