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MANILA — Cash remittances sent home by overseas Filipinos rose 3% from a year earlier to $2.65 billion in February, the Philippine central bank said on Monday.
For the first two months of 2024, cash remittances through banks increased 2.8% from a year earlier to $5.48 billion.
— Reporting by Neil Jerome Morales; Editing by John Mair