{"id":195124,"date":"2018-05-30T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=195124"},"modified":"2018-05-29T20:39:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T22:39:01","slug":"expatriate-remittances-uae-hit-usd-11-8-bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/expatriate-remittances-uae-hit-usd-11-8-bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Expatriate remittances from UAE hit USD 11.8 bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Remittances from the UAE by expatriate workers were up 17.3% year-on-year in Q1, news website <em>Gulf Business<\/em>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>Remittances climbed AED 6.5 billion (USD 1.7 billion) to AED 43.5 billion (USD 11.8 billion), up from AED 37.1 billion (USD 10 billion) during Q1 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE Central Bank reported that 71% of remittances were made via exchange houses, with banks accounting for the remaining 29%. Transfers by Indians accounted for 36.7% of total remittances, with Pakistanis accounting for 8.8% and Filipinos by 6.9%.<\/p>\n<p>In the whole of 2017, expat remittances from the UAE came out to AED 164.3 billion (USD 44.7 billion) up 2.2% from 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-195119\">AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-nationals working in the country wired 17.3% more cash to their home countries in the first three months of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":195119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[27409,2855,3010,3013,3014,3015,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-195124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-expatriados-en","9":"tag-expatriates","10":"tag-filipinos","11":"tag-indians","12":"tag-pakistanis","13":"tag-remittances","14":"tag-uae"},"wps_subtitle":"Non-nationals working in the country wired 17.3% more cash to their home countries in the first three months of this year. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}