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Byline: Dario Agnote
Sep. 19--MANILA -- An increasing number of young women from poor Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia are leaving their rural villages or shanty communities to take jobs overseas which they hope will lift their families from poverty, an Asian Development Bank study said Monday.
The study titled "Southeast Asia Workers' Remittance" says a significant development in contemporary labor migration in the region and beyond is a large number of single women working in a country other than their own, largely to support family members through remittances.
It says that nearly 2 million largely women immigrants in Southeast Asia remit more than $3 billion from Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and ...