OFW Journalism Consortium

17/02/2025

OVERSEAS Filipinos continue to drive the Philippine economy, as cash remittances hit $34.49 billion in 2024, more than double the inflow of foreign portfolio investments or “hot money.” Latest data from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed the cash remittances of $34.49 billion from January ...

14/09/2024

Economies still have a lot of work to do in bringing down remittance costs globally to three percent by 2030 and ensuring that the reductions translate to improvements in people’s welfare, according to experts.

05/09/2024

Philippine authorities think the country did not let up in directing overseas Filipino workers to regular migration channels, this being a “commitment” to the non-binding Global Compact on Migration by the United Nations.

05/08/2024

Waiting a century for these rare two days (possibly three a little later) of Olympic medal hauling for Philippine sports.

The Philippines waited a hundred years for this Olympic moment.

25/07/2024

Carlos Edriel Yulo was predicted by an international gymnastics e-zine and a leading sports magazine to land medals at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

15/07/2024

A July 18-19 conference will reflect on the last 50 years of Filipinos' international migration and on the Philippines' future beside the exodus.

15/04/2024

REMITTANCES sent home by overseas Filipinos abroad continued to increase in February 2024 but their savings and investments remained at pandemic levels, according to the latest data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). BSP data showed cash remittances rose to $2.65 billion in February 2024 fr...

14/04/2024

ENDURING slashed incomes for nearly two years bit hard on 37-year-old single mother Veniel (not her real name) and her family. She boarded that June 2020 mercy flight from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, while the first variant of SARS-CoV-2 lurked. Upon her return, she received P20,000 from government...

12/04/2024

Fresh data from the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) showed that the Philippines had deployed 2,330,720 land- and sea-based migrant workers in 2023, higher compared to the 2,156,742 OFWs deployed in pre-pandemic 2019.

03/01/2024

Fifty years after the birth of the Philippines' strategy to use emigration as a tool for development, the government is doubling down on labor migration. While deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) slumped during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the government and civil society pivoting to assis...

17/12/2023

The cycle of crisis-induced assistance to affected OFWs never stops. The Philippines migration stakeholders have been running it for three decades.

26/11/2023

While the latest BSP report showed continuing mild growth in remittance flows, government data showed the number of OFW savers has been declining the last 14 years.