MANILA, Philippines – Investments of families receiving remittances from Filipinos abroad surged in the fourth quarter to its highest level since 2007, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said.
“Those that allocated their remittances for investment increased to 11.2 percent from 4.8 percent [in the third quarter],” the central bank said in its latest Consumer Expectations Survey (CES).
The BSP stressed this is the highest percentage recorded since the annual survey was conducted in the first quarter of 2007.
BSP assistant governor Almasara Cyd Tuano-Amador said these are “small investments” such as sari-sari stores and other businesses.
At the same time, families receiving money from their members abroad had saved more in the last quarter, the survey showed.
“The percentage of OFW (overseas Filipino worker) households that utilized their remittances for savings rose to 41.6 percent from 34.3 percent in Q3 (third quarter),” the BSP said. –Kathleen A. Martin, The Philippine Star
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
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First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
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