Da TRUE and nothing butt da true: Where OFW remittances are coming from:
In 2006, Overseas Filipino Workers remitted a total of $12 billion glittering US Dollars to the Philippines. Eto po sya shown by top ten sources by country. If you look, almost 60% of which comes from the US and only 10% is coming from Saudi, followed by Canada at 5%.
On a bigger scale or by regions, you’d notice that it’s pretty much the same with 56% coming from the US, but Europe is now contributing 16% and the Middle East at 15%.
What are the implication of these numbers? Easy. Alam nyo po, yong ating mga kapatid in the Middle East has been asking for some help sa? FOREX rate but is getting no less than mere lip service. Tingin nyo? Could this be the? reason?!
7.5% GDP!!!
Our good friend GDP is in the headlines again. Kaya! Hoyyy! Basahin nyo! BILISSS! Kasi bumabagsak eh! Depends on what day you read the news!? Yesterday it was 7.5% – ngayon? 6.36% na lang sya! BILISAN NYO SABING MAGBASA EH!!! Mamya nyan zerowena na yan!
Ok, but I don’t want to talk about GDP yet. I’m sure, pag kinalkal ko ang mga numbers na yan, OFW remittances na naman ang lalabas. Result? Wa pa ring jobs generated at home. Kaya naman – I was reading this news tungkol dun sa nag-attend nang berdey in Malaysia. Arroyo crows about RP economic growth to OFWs in Malaysia where she said:
In fact, Arroyo said a number of Filipinos were returning to the country to work in big industries such as Texas Instruments in Clark, Pampanga and the Hanjin shipyard in Subic, which have poured in billions of pesos in investments.
A NUMBER? Baka isa lang? Di kaya? So I decided to research. Pucha! Baka ako na lang ang nai-iwan dito sa lupang banyaga no?! Gusto ko na talagang umuwi sa Barrio Siete Land noh?! Wala lang nga akong makuhang work ovah deh! So, let me show you what I found.
Da TRUE and nothing butt da TRUE: Are OFW’s going back home? Or is there still an exodus?
I am using the POEA numbers. Table 20, page 23 po sya nito. ? I created this in MS Excel and graphed da damn thing para makita naten ever. The statistics started in 1998, kaya when you see “98″ getz nyo na! And when you see “1″ dots “2001″ and so on and so forth. Do we all understand kids?! Sasampalin ko kayo pag di nyo yan naintindihan! Grrrr!
Well, this graph is Asia. Wag kayong mag-mi-miss Carolina saken! We all know what comprises Asia! So, in 1998 – there were about 300,000 OFW’s all over Asia. It remained relatively unchanged up until 2003 and then medyo nag-si-si-alisan na sila. Remember, there’s the Iraq War, that could be one of the reason. And then, there were changes in Japan’s accepting entertainers – gusto nila yong marunong na talagang kumanta? instead na dating kokak? nang kokak? – so mula noon, nabawasan also? ang mga Japayuki sa Japan. Again, that could be one of the reason.
This is the deployment naman in the Middle East. From 1998 to right around 2004, there’s an average of about 300,000 Filipinos going to the Middle East para iritahin yong damboohalang balyenang tikbalang na? di magkasya sa economee. Now, remember – mga new hires and rehires to – just in case ayaw nyong puntahan at basahin yong actual source. In 2005 there was a noticable increase in the deployment in the Middle East. What could it be? I could only suspect that it’s the UAE economy growing stronger as ever, especially Dubai which is now becoming to be one of the more important trading center in the world.
Heres the America’s – meaning kasali Canada, Mexico and the rest of the America’s in the south. If you noticed, we are only deploying roughly 10,000 OFWs from 1998 to about 2002, although there was a blip in 2001 and that could be the result of 911. From there, it continued to increase up to now. Who are they? Let me guess – nurses?
BIG QUESTION # 1 !~
Now, based on these numbers, I can’t believe that there only an average of 20,000 OFWs going to America. To me, this is really funky if you compare it with the remittances from the Americas. There’s a wide gap between the Middle East and the America’s as far as remittances are concerned. Check the graph above. Americas is sending 60% and only 10% from the Middle East. There’s 20,000 in the US compared to about 300,000 in the Middle East.
BIG QUESTION #? 2 !~ $328,000 annual na padala nang mga tiga merika?! tama ba to?!
If you do a simple math – dibay/dibay mo lang ever ang $12 billion – umaabot pala nang almost $328,000? dollars ang padala nang mga tiga Amerika annually?! Really?! Sino kaya sila? Saan sila nagwo-work?! Ba’t ako por hora?!!!
Mali ba ang numbers ko?! Check nyo naman at baka ipa-vodoo ako nang POEA!!! O baka naman? mali ang tabulation nang POEA? Sino ang nag-tabulate nito? Comelec???
BIG QUESTION #? 3 !~ Pustahan tayo!? Remittances is even bigger than $12 billion!
Palagay nyo? If you consider yong mga bayong bayong at yong mga inipit sa gilid nang balikbayan boxes? na padala that’s not going through the regular channels na di mamonitor nang POEA or banking industry naten, I suspect, mas malaki? pa to sa $12 billion! Next – pano yong mga remittances nang mga immigrants? How do they account? those numbers?
Let’s go back to our presentation.?
Now, let’s go to Africa. Di naten pedeng kalimutan to, we have some avid readers from Africa you know. There’s about 6,000 of them going to the oils and rigs in Africa to work at dahil medyo magulo in 2001, nag-uwian. But the trouble in Africa actually did not subside and you would think that the deployment would actually level up but it didn’t. So how do we explain this? Mahirap lang po talaga sa Flippines kaya kahit sa patalim – kakapit pa rin. We all have to remember how much our Pinoy friends in Africa suffered especially nong kinidnap pa sila in Nigeria.
Eto naman yong Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Marianas and those small islands in the Pacific. There’s not much activity here but I do know that some of them who go to these islands eventually apply for work somewhere else. Some of my former officemates in Makati actually worked in some of these islands. There are those who stayed and some of them migrated to Canada.
Oceana naman includes Australia & New? Zealand? at mga kalapit na islands. If you noticed, there’s not many of them who goes there, but now, it’s starting to pick up.
SOOMARI of DA TRUE and NOTHING BUTT DA TRUE
Now, if we add them all up together one another ever ever – here is what you will see:
You will notice that we started flying out of the Philippines in droves, yong iba nag-sagwan – at rougly a steady pace of about 600,000 OFW’s a year with the noticeable increase beginning 2005. Ano kaya ang nangyari noong 2005 sa Philippines bakit nag-sisilayasan uli ang mga Pinoy? Can anybody guess???
Now – if indeed the economy if growing, it should be able to provide us jobs. Korek? Kelangan ko pa bang sagutin to sa milyong-milyong lumalayas nang Pilipinas?
To find out kung sumi-semplang or kung saan man papunta ang graph na to – nilalagyan po to nang tinatawag na TRENDLINE, which is easy sa Excel kasi click of a button lang sya. Result? Ang trendline po nito eh pataas – meaning – nagsisilayasan pa rin po ang mga Pinoy. Bakit kaya? Hmmm… Anybody knows? Class? Class? Ba’t walang tao sa klase ko?!
DA BIGGER KESTYON:
So now that you have seen my research and investigative bloggaciousness, this brings us to the much much todo todong grandeng bigger question – ARE OFW’s COMING HOME?!
The answer is YES.
“Hindi na kasi Pilipinas ang HOME namin”.
Chikaaaaaaa!!!! Hahaha! Ang ibig kong sabihin, NO. They’re even increasing OUT of the Philippines.
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ang gleng gleng mo talaga reyna elena!!! you can be a very good teacher i’m sure, sana pag nakahiga ka na sa pera and stay na sa pinas makapagturo ka sa mga styudeynts natin!
btw, antayin kita sa october ha! excited na ko makilala ang kamahalan in person =)
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Reynz, naduling ako sa mga graphs mo pero in fairness, magaling at very entertaining ang lecture portion! O, hayan, another food for your ego, lampas ka na talaga sa quota mo kamahalan ha!!
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oo nga, bat nagkaganun? makarating naman sana sa kin-uukulan to! Pero teka, mukang malaking isda to ah! way way bigger than the pig! Kayanin kaya ng powers ng mahal na Reyna? btw, keep the torch burning, we are on your side (ayaw ko sa front, heheheh)
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Hi Reynaelena, nahiloooo ako talaga sa statistics mo! grabe! sa susunod wag nang ganun ang presentation mo dahil baka di maintindihan ng iyong poorly educated kaharian populace. Alam mo naman mga domestic helpers lang kami at mga taga sales persons lang sa Dubai duty free, yan naman po ang sabi ng ating bruhahang columnista,Pero teka muna, bakit napunta sa uwian ang kwentuhan? nahuli na ata ako sa developmental economic report ni Mde. President. Ano ba ang gustong ipahiwatig nitong report? Ibig sabihin ba, well off na tayong mga OFWs, I mean, mga Overseas Investors na nga pala tayo. Pero, bakit lalong nauubos ang pera ko sa bulsa di pa nga ako nagpapadala wala na. Lalo na siguro ang mga nasa Pinas, dami kaya silang pera pambili ng mga nagtataasang presyo ng basic commodities. Recently tumaas naman ang presyo ng bigasssss! Naubos na ata ang ating mga taniman at naging mga subdivisions and resorts na lang! Mas mabuti pa ata ang Vietnam, Thailand at Malaysia, matapos silang magaral sa ting IRRI sa los Banos eh, tayo pa ang nag-iimport ng bigas. Saan kaya patutungo ang pobreng Juan de la Cruz? baka mamalayan natin papunta na tayo sa Timbuktu.
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Hello Bayani,
Iisa lang naman ang punto ko sa graph nato – para maipakita senyong mga nagbabasa na takas pa rin nang takas ang mga Pinoy.
Sabi nga nung email saken ni SinagLaya – ba’t nagkakaron nang brain drain saten? Sinabi na ni JHV ang result – that is, brain dead ang mga naiwan saaten.
Pero sabi naman nong bumisita sa Kuala Lumpur, at pinalabas nga yong press release sa Malaysia na 7.5% na ang GDP naten eh sa katunayan daw, nag-uuwian na ang mga OFW sa Pilipinas.
Kaya eto ngayon ako – biglang natakot at baka nga ako na lang ang naiwan dito sa merika naghuhugas nang mga pwet nitong mga merkanong to.
Ayun sa aking mga listahang galing sa POEA, napatunayan ko (kung totoo tong mga numerong to ano?) na marami pa rin talagang mga Pinoy na nagsisilayasan at naghahanap nang trabaho sa labas.
Ngayon, ano yong sinasabi nyang nag-uuwian? So, conclusion ko eh, nag-uuwian sa ibang bansa – di ba? hehehe
*Pasensya na kayo – akala ko talaga pinasimpli ko na nang todo ang aking presenteyshun!
Discuss ko na lang sa isang blog article tong point mo kasi gusto ko yong sinabi mo at gusto kong i-elevate in a much relevant subject.
Saan nga ba napupunta ang ating mga OFW Remittances? Ayun – maglalagay naman ako nang isang Flowchart para masundan naten ang takbo nang ateng mga pisosis.
Wag kang mag-alala Dimaapi! Marunong tayong lumaban sa mga balyenang yan!
ITAAS ANG MGA KAMAY!
LUMABAN NANG NAKATAAS NOO!
BUKSAN ANG MGA PABANGO!
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pusa,
i applied sa isang WKU (well-known university) sa Pinas as professor.teacher.kargador – wiz pinansin ang resume ko!!! pucha talaga!!! i’ll see pag-uwi ko, me bibisitahin akong university as in personal ko na talagang ipapakita ang ganda ko sakaling tumanggap sila nang me korona sa ulo, you know, para lang makauwi.
pero, winar-ningan na ako nang mga prends ko, kelangan ko raw magtinda nang mga tela at tapa sa school para lang madagdagan ang sweldo ko run else, baka kumaripas na naman daw ako nang uwi sa amerika.
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mia,
hehehe ayokong magamot ang ADD ko anak!
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roni!
hehehe na-get mo pala! wala! wala akong interes na labanan sya no? ako lang naman eh – gina-check yong mga pinag-sasabi nang mga ilan ilang powers dot be saten, you know why?
i honestly don’t like people trying to manipulate information for their own self-serving needs. me public information naman, kaso nga, siempre pag dinilever yong information na yun, mamanipulate para dun sa mga pariringan eh di naman tama eh.
di talaga totoo na nag-uuwian ang mga OFW. bakit yong TREND eh pataas?
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wawawi! inang, pawerfoint presentation pa yan ha hehehe. by the way, i was glued to the tv the other night and i found out that another sector of workers are now in-demand in UK, Australia and Caledonia. Mga linesmen daw po ng mga planta.
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Tanong, pano naman ang mga non-OFW’s sa America’s tulad mo reynz na may asul na pasaporte atsaka yung may mga berdeng karton?
Hindi ba sila counted sa remittances from America’s pag nagpadala sila sa Pinas? Hindi ba isa ito sa mga rason kung bakit mataas masyado ang $$$ from the Americas dahil mas maraming non-OFW Penoy sa US?
Nagtatanong lang po…
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unanimous_flip,
i bet you that’s the reason why the numbers are funky. i honestly don’t believe na there are only 20,000 OFWs sa Amerika remitting an average of $328,000 annually per person versus over 400,000 OFWs $4,000 annually per person. That was the one glaring number that I noticed and i don’t know if POEA noticed this but something is definitely wrong with their numbers.
so the question becomes – what could have they done?
i agree with your theory. they only count OFWs registered at POEA therefore those numbers of OFW’s around the world maybe right – the 20,000 OFW’s in the US might also be correct.
However, I think – they included in the count yong mga remittances nang Overseas Filipinos = immigrants in the total Remittances kaya when you average the number – really really funky.
As in, I send money to the Philippines regularly but no way in can I afford to send an average of $328,000 a year!!! Ni hindi nga umabot dyan ang sweldo ko!
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So kahit saang ahensya pala nang gobyerno ay may nagaganap na dagdag-bawas. Tsk tsk tsk…
Sino kaya sa gobyerno ang magaling magmaniobra ng istatistiko para lumabas na maganda at malaki ang numero. Palagay nio?
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unanimous_flip,
that’s why we all need to be vigilant but what i don’t understand, how come no one at POEA even noticed these numbers? $328,000 annual average remitance by OFWs in America is way off as an outlier and immediately it should have raised a red flag pero mukhang ako lang yata ang nagbabasa nito! hahahaha!
that’s why whatever statistics that comes out about anything in the philippines, parating hindi kapani-paniwala all the time, dala kasi nang mga pandaraya ever – ayan nakasak sak na tuloy sa mga ugat natin na there must be ANOTHER story behind it
tingnan mo 7.5% GDP, pero marami pa rin ang nakasimangot, kahit na ako, i don’t know what to believe.
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addition sa tanong ni unanimous_flip, kasama ba sa OFWs ang migrant workers? ung may mga green card. e, ung mga TNT, sinama rin ba nila? i got relatives na US citizens pero nagpapadala pa rin ng pera sa mga kapamilya. Are they documenting only OFW cash or the total remittances from the US? kahit walang definite answers, basta madefine lang natin kung ano ang OFW ok na sakin. I have the impression na OFWs are pinoys galing sa pilipinas na nagtatrabaho sa ibang bansa para magpadala ng pera sa pilipinas (migrant workers + contract workers + TNT). It’s sounds like a dumb question, but I need to know.
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ARE OFW’s COMING HOME?!
The answer is YES.
“Hindi na kasi Pilipinas ang HOME namin”.
natawa naman ako dito. hehe
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issai,
it seems to me that POEA defined OFW’s two-ways:
1.) those who are documented OFW’s who leaves excluding immigrants
and then pagdating sa remittances:
2.) included na pati immigrants and migrants
why do I say this? kasi if you look at the remittances, it’s not adding up sa numbers noong documented OFWs nang POEA
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Ayaw din naman naming magamot ang ADD mo Kamahalan, part ng charm mo yan eh!
Hay naku, basta kasi government statistics wag paniwalaan eh! Boto nga hindi kayang bilangin ng husto, taong nagsisi-alisan pa kaya??? Yung perang nereremit, tama yan! Marunong silang magbilang ng pera!!
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Mia naman,
Nakaka yanig ever naman ang average na padala nang mga tiga-Amerika ano? $328,000 annually. Day, kakarampot na por hora lang po ang sweldo ko na pag sinoooma trinoma mo, di pa nga aabot kahit na kalahati nang wan percent of kalahati nitong $328,000. Besides – over naman to! $328,000 times Php45 equals = Php14 million!!! EEKKKK!! SINO TONG EMPLOYERS NA NAGPAPASWELDONG GANITO?!
Eh pano na yong mga kaartehan ko? It’s expensive to maintain myself Mia. Makapal na makeup ang kelangan ko para maitago ang pleges sa muka ko.
I mean, oo na! Nagpapadala ako sa aking Boys Foundation (aged 26 to 36 only at me physical inspection and interview to get in) pero di kasama nito na bilhan sila nang condominium buwan buwan ano?!
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Reynz, hindi tayo mag-aargue about this because all I’m saying is, the $12 B annual remittance that they showed may be correct but I totally agree with you that the sources of these remittances definitely do not add up. Kung 20,000 nga lang ang “known” OFWs natin sa states, eh naku para makapadala sila ng $328,000 annually kailangan ay 48 hours a day silang magtatrabaho, o di kaya 72 hours, hehehe! Hay naku Kamahalan, you’re the math wizard, so, I’m not arguing with you on your numbers:-)
And I’m not surprised at all that it takes a lot, lot of money to maintain your lifestyle. Royalty can be quite expensive, but Britain happily pays the bill because the prestige of having Royalty among their midst is worth their while. Katulad din sa amin dito sa queendom mo, we happily pay tribute to you (wala pa kasi kaming pera para mag-pay ng taxes eh, hehe!) kasi nga we want your queendom to go on and on.
O siya, I didn’t mean to ruffle your feathers Kamahalan. Hindi mo lang naintindihan kung anong ibig sabihin ng subject mo. Labas na ako bago mo ako ipa-garote!
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P.S. Kamahalan, tinawag kang “Dear” ni Ed, ahhhhhhhh! Kilig ako!!!! (Nang-intriga pa, ipapa-garote na talaga ako ni Queenhood, hehehe!)
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naku Mia ha? he he he!
meron kaming LOVE FIGHTS siguro ni ED at bigla nya akong na-DEAR!
hehehe
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Prof Reynz,
Sa pag lakas ng peso natin, nanaginip ako na ang exchange rate eh naging $1 = PHP1 !!!
Gusto kong matuwa dahil lumakas ang Pilipinas, uuwi na ang mga sangkaterbang OFWs na matagal hindi nakapiling ang pamilya nila…
pero, paano na yun maraming immigrants na nasanay na sa ibang bansa???
at katulad mo Prof Reynz…pag ganun ang mangyayayri, saan ka mag iinvest??? sa Pinas o sa US???
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hey ross,
i’d like that to happen and ONE VERY IMPORTANT THING. Pagka ang PER CAPITA nang Pinas eh parehas na sa United States which is $44,000 (2006 estimate) then uwi na talaga ako!!!
Here are some selected per capita numbers:
United Arab Emirates = $49,700 = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ae.html#Econ
USA: $44,000 = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html#Econ
Hongkong: $37,300 = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/hk.html#Econ
Singapore: $31,400 = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sn.html#Econ
Italy: $30,200 = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/it.html#Econ
Brunei: $25,600 = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bx.html#Econ
Saudi Arabia: $13,600= https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sa.html#Econ
Malaysian: $12,900 = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/my.html#Econ
Thailand: $9,200 = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/th.html#Econ
Philippines: $5,000 = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rp.html#Econ
Indonesia: $3,900 = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/th.html#Econ
Vietnam: $3,900 = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vm.html#Econ
Cambodia: $2,900 = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cb.html#Econ
Laos: $2,100 = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/la.html#Econ
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medyo may mali po yata sa figures ng remittance between middle east at america. dito lang po sa saudi arabia nasa 800,000 na ang mga OFW na obligado magpadala buwan buwan sa pamilya nila sa pilipinas.
check nyo po kung mali ito, ang mga remittance ay binabase lang kung saan ang bank origin. halos lahat ng banko dito sa saudi na tumatanggap ng remittance na padala ng pinoy ay dumadaan muna sa mga banko sa america bago itatransfer sa banko sa pinas. kaya ang mga remittance na galing sa saudi or middle east ay binibilang kasama sa remittance ng america.
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rojz!
i think that basically answers my question. So ganun, yong mga Middle East remittances eh napasama sa mga tiga US! I think that’s the most logical explanation. OR baka pati yong mga immigrants na nagpapadal eh sinama nila.
But the bigger question – wala man lang nagreklamo na mali ang numbers nang POEA other than us?
Tsk Tsk Tsk!
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