On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:28:09 +0900, Declan Murphy
<declan_murphy@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:

>mr.sumo snr. wrote:
>
>> BTW does anyone know the primary method by which Brazilians working in Japan
>> send money to their home country?
>
>According to the Brazilian guy sitting 3 metres on my right, ordinary 
>garden variety bank transfer or "Pa-lu-lu" giro at the post office.
>
>  I remember someone telling me about 7
>> years ago that the total annual non-commerical wire transfers from Japan to
>> Brazil was something like USD $2 billion - that's got to be worth an entry
>> in the Brazilian budget accounts.
>
>In their current account yes. In my previous life I wrote a paper about 
>stuff like this - its an interesting field. Oh why Oh why on earth did I 
>leave it for engineering and my slow and steady descent to 
>salesdude/driver/cleaner/bartender/nappie washer?
>
>If the annual remittances aggregate does exceed USD$2 billion then it 
>would put Brazil #2 behind the Phillipines. Have a browse through
>
>http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/finance/download/wpap21.pdf


I amended your post.