About 10.23m Pinoys work abroad which is about 10% of the Filipino population. Most of these workers send money to the Philippines to help their families and loved ones pay utility bills for electricity, water, phone, tuition and the like.
The Philippines is the third largest destination for receiving money (Pew Research, 2015). This can probably be attributed to the fact that “it is probably the only country in the world that has institutionalized the deployment of its people to work…