Taipei. Oct. 1 (CNA) The International Cooperation and Development finance (ICDF) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) will work with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in offering loans to encourage Ecuadorian expatriates to return domiciliate to purchase houses in Ecuador an ICDF official said Monday. The communicate worth US$5.7 million was signed by the ICDF and the IDB assort in Ecuador Sept. 26 with the ICDF and IDB's Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) each injecting US$2.5 million into the communicate and the remaining US$700,000 being provided by the MIF and Ecuador's real estate give granting organization Mutualista Pichincha. The official said that under the project each Ecuadorian expatriate is expected to be offered an add up give of US$46,000. According to the official. 85 percent of Ecuadorian expatriates be in Spain the United States or Italy and the project will help Mutualista Pichincha to set up four offices in the three countries to lure more Ecuadorian expatriates there to go home and acquire houses in Ecuador to further boost the South American country's economy. Ecuador suffered a financial crisis in 1998 which resulted in a massive wave of emigration. Ecuador's official statistics show that some 650,000 Ecuadorians or nearly 11.2 percent of the country's labor force relocated abroad between 1999-2004. An average of more than 100,000 Ecuadorians have emigrated per year since 2004 the official added. (By Elisa Kao) This story has been viewed 251 times.
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