Metro Vancouver is home to more than 80,000 Filipino immigrants and temporary foreign workers, most of whom faithfully send home cash “remittances” to family members in their island homeland.
But a new scholarly report reveals that even though millions of off-shore remittances may seem like a blessing to the Phillipines, they are also a curse.
The export of Filipino workers, including many who are skilled, is contributing to the Phillipines failing to advance as a ...
