31. Dollar inflows in recent days have been dominated by remittances from overseas Filipino workers. 32. Exporters, the families of overseas workers and money market placers are of course enjoying unexpected windfalls, unlike just about everyone else with reduced incomes and purchasing power. 33. First, weaker demand forelectronics and electrical parts, and second, the loss of jobs for Filipino overseas workers. 34. FCDUs are mostly US dollar-denominted accounts kept by families of overseas Filipino workers, export firms, and companies receiving foreign investments. 35. Gancayco, who visits Cairo next, will submit a report on the protection of overseas workers to President Fidel Ramos by the end of the month. 36. GDP excludes the billions of dollars sent home each year by overseas Filipino workers. 37. GNP includes the billions of dollars sent home each year by overseas Filipino workers, while GDP does not. 38. GDP measures total domestic production of goods and services, while GNP also includes the billions of dollars sent home each year by overseas Filipino workers. 39. He defends his trips by saying they have brought investment and secured assurances from foreign leaders for proper treatment of overseas Filipino workers. 40. He said the suspects were informed through two-way radios by contacts inside the airport of prospective victims, mostly foreign tourists and Filipino overseas workers. |