Don’t use remittances to build malls – Binay

Vice President Jejomar Binay said remittances by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) should contribute to mitigating the social costs of migration as well as to the country’s development and “help build a higher quality of life for the workers.”

“This means that instead of using this money to build shopping malls and import luxury consumer items, it should be invested to upgrade the quality of education, technology and health care. This will ensure that the next generation or the next wave of migrant workers will be better schooled than the last one,” the Vice President noted in his lecture on migration and development at the International Institute of Social Studies (IISS) at The Hague.