Ercof is pioneering the introduction of alternative investment directions for remittances so that this leads to benefits to overseas Filipinos, families of overseas Filipinos, and to local rural economies in the Philippines.
Overseas Filipinos and Hometown Development: A four-country European Roadshow 4-13 November 2005, Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands (pdf-944Kb right-click and choose Save Link As...)
Enhancing the Efficiency of Overseas Filipino Workers' Remittances Manila: Asian Development Bank, 2004 (pdf-708Kb right-click and choose Save Link As...). A groundbreaking project that looked at almost the complete landscape about remittances of overseas Filipinos. A feature here is a nationwide survey of remitters and remittance-receiving families.
Tapping Filipino Migrant Remittances for Local Economic Development: Case Studies, Issues and Recommendations for Policy Consideration (commissioned by the Ateneo de Manila University-based Center for Social Policy) (pdf-629Kb right-click and choose Save Link As...)
Tapping Filipino migrant philanthropy for local economic development: presented at a 2006 international conference on migration and development organized by the International Network of Alternative Financial Institutions (INAFI) - Asia and the Philippines (pps-481Kb right-click and choose Save Link As...)
The Migrantrepreneur (pdf-513Kb right-click and choose Save Link As...)
The Philippine experience in transforming remittances for development purposes by Dr. Federico Macaranas (Asian Institute of Management) (pdf-397Kb right-click and choose Save Link As...)
Migrantrepreneur article on the Pinoys (right-click and choose Save Link As..) in the Netherlands and Luxembourg who have invested in the rural banks of Milamdec Foundation
Memorandum of Agreement between RBAP and ERCOF (pdf-221Kb right-click and choose Save Link As..)
Rural bankers tie up with NGO in tapping OFWs, an article in Business Mirror by Dennis Estopace (pdf-31Kb right-click and choose Save Link As..)
OFW Money flows to the countryside, a presentation by Atty Ding Bagasao at the 2005 RBAP Conference, Davao City (pdf-53Kb right-click and choose Save Link As..)
Data on Overseas Filipino Workers and Remittances (pdf-15Kb right-click and choose Save Link As..)
The Role of Rural Banks as MFIs in Remittances, a presentation of former RBAP president Senen Glorioso in an ADB Forum (pdf-451Kb right-click and choose Save Link As..)
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