IOM Manila launched an on-line resource website addressing the global financial crisis and its impact on the Philippines and neighbouring countries last December 18, 2009.
The website was officially launched in Manila at the annual celebration of the Month of Overseas Filipinos and International Migrants Day, co-organized by the Commission for Filipinos Overseas, the Department of Foreign Remittances in the month of September 2009 reached USD 1.4 billion, up 8.6 per cent from USD 1.33 billion in the same month a year earlier.
