Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!53.200.244.43.ap.yournet.ne.JP!not-for-mail From: Michael Cash Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Quckdraw McGraw Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:26:53 +0900 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <1g3jmtj.1pkzoxxr0h63vN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> <3F9E2899.3030108@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 53.200.244.43.ap.yournet.ne.jp (43.244.200.53) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1067351214 36642455 43.244.200.53 (16 [51151]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:6948 On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:28:09 +0900, Declan Murphy 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.