{"id":42101,"date":"2018-09-12T09:57:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T04:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=42101"},"modified":"2018-09-12T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T04:57:02","slug":"remittances-increase-by-13-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/remittances-increase-by-13-5.html","title":{"rendered":"Remittances increase by 13.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Overseas Pakistanis remitted around USD 4 billion in remittances during the first two months of the fiscal year 2018-2019, as per a news report. According to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), total remittances increased by 13.45% to USD 3.966 billion for the period July-August. The statistics show that the inflow was of USD 2.037 billion, 4.24% higher than August 2017.<\/p>\n<p>During FY18, total remittances were equal to total export earnings. Inflows from the US have experienced a significant increase of 31.5%, the highest increase during first two months of 2018-2019. Remittances from the UK increased by 24%, coming at about USD 556 million, while inflows from the UAE swelled to 15.4% reaching USD 894 million, and from European Union countries these increased to 8.4%, during the same period. On the other hand, remittances from Saudi Arabia fell by 1.86%, and from the Gulf Cooperation Council dripped by 7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Overseas Pakistanis remitted around USD 4 billion in remittances during the first two months of the fiscal year 2018-2019, as per a news report. According to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), total remittances increased by 13.45% to USD 3.966 billion for the period July-August. The statistics show that the inflow was of USD 2.037 billion, 4.24% higher than August 2017. During FY18, total remittances were equal to total export earnings. Inflows from the US have experienced a significant increase of 31.5%, the highest increase during first two months of 2018-2019. Remittances from the UK increased by 24%, coming at about USD 556 million, while inflows from the UAE swelled to 15.4% reaching USD 894 million, and from European Union countries these increased to 8.4%, during the same period. On the other hand, remittances from Saudi Arabia fell by 1.86%, and from the Gulf Cooperation Council dripped by 7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":42102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8164,8165],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-how-much-did-overseas-pakistanis-sent-under-pti-government","8":"tag-details-on-remittance-sent-by-overseas-pakistanis-sent-under-pti-government"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Remittances increase by 13.5% - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: Overseas Pakistanis remitted around USD 4 billion in remittances during the first two months of the fiscal year 2018-2019, as per a news report.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/remittances-increase-by-13-5.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remittances increase by 13.5% - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: Overseas Pakistanis remitted around USD 4 billion in remittances during the first two months of the fiscal year 2018-2019, as per a news report.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/remittances-increase-by-13-5.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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