Remittances sent home by overseas Pakistanis continued to show rising trend as $5,291.41 million was received in the first half of the current fiscal year 2010-11(July-December), showing an increase of $761.23 million, or 16.80 percent, when compared with $4,530.18 million received during the same period of last fiscal year.
The monthly average of remittances for the July-December 2010 period comes out to $881.90 million as compared to $755.04 million during the corresponding period of last fiscal year, registering an increase of 16.80 percent.
The inflow of remittances in the July-December 2010 period from UAE, Saudi Arabia, USA, GCC countries (including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman), UK and EU countries amounted to $1,255.65 million, $1,143.82 million, $997.68 million, $626.29 million, $577.17 million and $172.10 million respectively, as compared to $1,021.91 million, $845.91 million, $938.40 million, $642.45 million, $482.79 million and $142.79 million respectively in the July-December, 2009 period.
Remittances received from Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Japan and other countries during the first half of the current fiscal year amounted to $518.69 million as against $454.94 million in the same period of last year.
In December 2010, $863.11 million was sent home by overseas Pakistanis, up 23.72 percent, or $165.51 million, when compared with $697.60 million received in the same month of last year. During December 2010, remittances from UAE, Saudi Arabia, USA, GCC countries (including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman), UK and EU countries amounted to $210.33 million, $208.06 million, $156.36 million, $95.99 million, $81.08 million and $24.53 million respectively, as compared to $167.67 million, $137.56 million, $141.22 million, $97.57 million, $74.30 million and $18.89 million in December 2009.
Remittances received from Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Japan and other countries during December 2010 amounted to $86.76 million compared with $60.33 million in the same month last year. The State Bank, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis had undertaken a joint initiative called 'Pakistan Remittance Initiative (PRI)' with a view to facilitating the flow of remittances through formal channels. This initiative has materialised and remittances through formal channels are showing considerable growth.
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