Remittances are a big deal; $28.5 billion flows into Mexico every year in remittances.
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Driving the growth of remittances are more Cubans living in the U.S., and raised caps on remittances.
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In Venezuela, remittances are a literal lifeline — many Venezuelans would die without them, according to World Bank remittances expert Dilip Ratha.
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Central America and some Pacific islands also depend on remittances: they suffered in 2009, the only year this century that global remittances have fallen.
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The region is also an importance source of remittances, contributing to "half of the total $72 billion in worker remittances sent to India in 2015," he added.
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Trump's proposal claims that Mexico got $22 billion in remittances from "illegal immigrants" last year; in fact, that's the amount of remittances sent to Mexico period — from legal immigrants, unauthorized immigrants, and even Mexican emigrants in countries other than the US (though the last group only sent 2 percent of remittances).
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And with digital remittances gaining popularity thanks in part to their convenience and speed, being able to make digital remittances even easier because of PayPal may give Xoom a serious advantage.
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Remittances sent to Mexico totalled nearly $25 billion in 533.
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One reason is that remittances mean cheaper stuff for Americans.
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In Haiti, remittances made up 25% of GDP in 2015.
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Remittances are a key source of foreign currency for Egypt.
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Since the currency has floated, remittances are rising once more.
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Remittances from relatives in the cities are also changing things.
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Roughly 1493 percent of Cubans living in Havana pocket remittances.
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Remittances could reach $238 billion by 22015, according to BCG.
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Its customers include crowdfunding site Indiegogo and remittances app Remitly.
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This includes remittances from North Korean laborers working in China.
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But Russia's economy contracted last year, and remittances have plummeted.
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In the Philippines, remittances are equal to 10% of GDP.
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In 2017, remittances from U.S. to Mexico were $31 billion.
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The remittances they send home are essential to Lebanon's economy.
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Most families receive remittances from one or two predictable sources.
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People would find a way around any clampdown on remittances.
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The big one Mr. Trump mentioned early on is remittances.
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You can use SDT to buy goods or to receive remittances.
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China's foreign exchange regulator tightened checks over remittances by foreign firms.
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The remittances they send home enrich some of Mexico's poorest places.
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The development impact of remittances is enormous, for two main reasons.
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"So really this [remittances] becomes discretionary income," said Fitzgerald of BCG.
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Mexico has said it will defend the free flow of remittances.
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The Philippines is one of the world's largest recipients of remittances.
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India leads the world in remittances, according to the World Bank.
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The rupee ended flat as inward remittances offset importer dollar demand.
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N on everything from foreign exchange to current accounts and remittances.
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"Today, remittances to Cuba are time-consuming and expensive," Schulman said.
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Economic growth accelerated thanks to higher exports and remittances from abroad.
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Their remittances home are an important contributor to the country's economy.
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Remittances can be accessed in over 50 countries and 140+ destinations.
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PHILIPPINE C.BANK SEES 2019 REMITTANCES GROWTH AT 3.0 (PREVIOUS 3.0 PCT)
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Overseas workers sent some $4.64 billion in remittances during that time.
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There were not much of remittances due to Hajj festival holidays.
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Their remittances have become an increasing source of revenue for Pyongyang.
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Customers are often workers sending remittances to families living far away.
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Today remittances are fast becoming a lifeline for those left behind.
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I intend to introduce legislation entitled the Border Funding Act of 2017 that would put a 2% tax on those remittances, such as Western Union and MoneyGram remittances that would generate close to $1 billion a year.
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The company is currently eyeing the remittances market in India, Bloomberg said.
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Small remittances, for example, cost much more here than in other countries.
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Remittances for July were $2.4 billion, up 5.2 percent year-on-year.
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She now lives off of meager remittances from a nephew living abroad.
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Most of their earnings flowed back home in the form of remittances.
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More Cubans started living on cash remittances sent from the United States.
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Egypt received $2.6 billion in remittances in May 2018, the statement said.
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Remittances are increasingly critical to economic activity in much of the world.
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The informal hawala networks suffered, damaging remittances to Indonesia and the Philippines.
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First, remittances disintermediate most government bureaucracy and go straight to poor individuals.
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Net remittances have risen from $200m in 2016 to $2bn in 2018.
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Remittances from workers like Hemraj make up nearly 30% of Nepal's GDP.
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To prod remittances into the 21st century, two things need to happen.
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And can the exorbitant cost of cross-border remittances be brought down?
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The remittances they send back are vital for Pakistan's dollar-starved economy.
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Mexico took in some $2459 billion last year through such personal remittances.
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Their remittances boost local incomes, property prices and demand for better schools.
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Over $16.9 billion in remittances flew through Hong Kong the same year.
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Convenience stores that handle remittances need an account to deposit the cash.
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She receives remittances every fortnight from family members in Colombia and Spain.
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In 2014, almost 23 percent of local households reportedly received foreign remittances.
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Another provision allows remittances to pro-democracy groups and civil society groups.
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"Without the remittances we would be bankrupt, just like Greece," Capuire said.
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Rather, migration networks, remittances and broader economic changes are the driving factors.
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In addition, remittances from Egyptian workers in the Persian Gulf have dropped.
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Remittances from Egyptians working abroad jumped to $26.4 billion from $21.8 billion.
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Consultancy firms estimate those remittances amount to around $1 billion per year.
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Given their growing influence, post offices in the continent should encourage people picking up remittances to open savings accounts, said IFAD, which is this week hosting a conference on remittances and postal networks in the Ivorian capital Abidjan.
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But even without these shocks, remittances were falling—and fewer were being counted.
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Past proposals to tax remittances have never gotten off the ground in Washington.
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This is for remittances to start with, from across the globe into Asia.
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There were no remittances because exchange houses were closed due to Eid holidays.
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It is also mean-spirited toward families in Mexico who depend on remittances.
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Remittances were a $442 billion market in 2016, according to World Bank estimates.
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Tourism, remittances, and gold exports support the growth in current external receipts (CXR).
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Grab, with its region-wide footprint, is also looking at cross-border remittances.
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Its success was built on the "two Rs": remittances and ready-made garments.
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Absence of dollar conversions by exporters and remittances also pushed the rupee down.
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Payments banks can take deposits and remittances but are not allowed to lend.
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The Philippines has long exported workers: remittances are worth around 10% of GDP.
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It uses the blockchain as its underlying technology to facilitate transfers and remittances.
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Remittances to the two largest recipient countries, India and China, exceed $60 billion.
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Remittances from the Gulf are under pressure, too, as oil prices have slipped.
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Among Facebook's applications for Libra is cross-border payments, otherwise known as remittances.
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Nepal's remittances equal a whopping 2003 percent of the country's entire economic output.
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Another campaign promise that Trump made was to cut-off remittances to Mexico.
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"There were some exporter (dollar) sales and inward remittances," said a currency dealer.
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That would threaten the remittances upon which the highly dollarized Lebanese economy depends.
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A reduction in remittances from the United States will adversely affect local economies.
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Since April, the lari currency has stabilised and remittances and imports are growing.
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Trump previously said he'll freeze remittances to get Mexico to pay for it.
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Remittances dropped to $867 million last year from $1.2 billion a year earlier.
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The garments industry is Sri Lanka's second biggest hard currency earner after remittances.
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Pakistan received $20 billion in remittances in 2016, according to the World Bank.
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In late 2015 Trump team releases paper saying higher visa fees/fining remittances.
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WorldRemit offers fee-free remittances to a recipient network of over 150 countries.
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Recall, Trump's campaign promise to fund the wall by seizing remittances to Mexico.
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In 2018, these workers sent $6 billion back to their country in remittances.
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After all, many people who send remittances are American citizens or legal residents.
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Taxing remittances only by illegal immigrants would be, to say the least, implausible.
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Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty In Africa, for example, where transaction fees on remittances tend to be highest (13 percent of remittances get eaten up in fees), people have started sending money directly by cellphone for much lower fees than banks charge.
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"I think the drop in the peso may have been connected to the slowdown in remittances because with the economic situation in the Middle East and in Europe, the U.S., remittances have not been as high as they were," Mobius said.
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The average cost of sending remittances is about 7.68 percent of the overall transaction.
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Many village homes have changed from wood to brick thanks to garment workers' remittances.
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Global remittances are expected to soar from $468bn in 2010 to $667bn in 2019.
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"Real and legitimate cross-border payments and remittances will not be affected," it added.
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Total remittances for 2016 are expected to reach $27bn, $2bn more than in 2015.
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John Greim/LightRocket/Getty At the same time, remittances don't save entire national economies.
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Trump has threatened to slap tariffs on Mexican imports, slash immigration and curb remittances.
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However, dealers expect the rupee to be under pressure till seasonal inward remittances begin.
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In 2015, remittances to the Balkan country amounted to 9.2 percent of national output.
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Aid has become less important to many poor countries than foreign investment or remittances.
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Job advertisements in September for Ant Financial's Malaysia office listed remittances as a responsibility.
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Bangladeshi migrants around the world sent $15 billion in remittances back home last year.
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Tourism, along with tea, horticulture and remittances, are Kenya's leading sources of foreign exchange.
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He said remittances to Lebanon were stable at around $7-$8 billion a year.
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His daughter was supported by remittances from her mother's relatives in the United States.
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There's more behind the stability than the sun, family, remittances and civilization I mentioned.
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One would think that remittances could help democracy in Cuba by financing civil society.
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Remittances from Hondurans working abroad account for about 20 percent of the country's economy.
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Remittances to Armenia dropped to $1.5 billion in 2016 from $2.3 billion in 453.
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Perhaps a third of Venezuelans have direct access to remittances from relatives living abroad.
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Tourism along with tea, horticulture and remittances are Kenya's leading sources of foreign exchange.
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That year, remittances surpassed oil exports for the first time in the country's history.
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Freedom of movement and labor means huge remittances coming home from citizens working elsewhere.
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Moldova is about twice as dependent on remittances as the Philippines, which is saying something.
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Marie Diron of Moody's Investors Service warned there could be worse to come for remittances.
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Last year, migrant workers sent home some $9.4 billion in remittances, according to official data.
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One Trump idea is to tax remittances - the money Mexicans in the US send home.
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Remittances saw the biggest jump in 10 years in November after Trump's surprise election victory.
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Ivory Coast is thought to account for fully 87% of all remittances to Burkina Faso.
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In November remittances to Mexico totalled nearly $2.4bn, a 25% jump over the previous year.
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And studies of other countries show that remittances are commonly invested, especially in children's education.
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Money transfer companies have reported a spike in remittances since the crisis erupted in August.
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Foreign remittances, a big source of hard currency, are up sharply in the local currency.
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Western Union, the giant incumbent of the global remittances industry, is also experimenting with it.
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In some countries, such as Samoa, remittances amount to one-fifth of gross domestic product.
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A payments bank is an institution that can take deposits and remittances but cannot lend.
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One key use Facebook touts for Calibra is cross-border payments, also known as remittances.
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Jamaica received $2.3bn in remittances in 2017, more than its income from exports of goods.
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Remittances from Liberians living abroad account for more than a quarter of gross domestic product.
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They worry that the Gulf will kick out Lebanese residents, who send home hefty remittances.
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Increased foreign direct investment, tourism inflows and diaspora remittances would also drive growth, he said.
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Consumers can pay bills, receive remittances and make simple financial transactions in all of them.
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The industry is one of Kenya's biggest foreign-exchange earners, alongside tea, tourism and remittances.
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The two halves of the Americas are linked by trade, investment, tourism, family and remittances.
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Low oil prices affect all Arab economies, including net energy importers that depend on remittances.
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This burgeoning middle class—along with growing remittances from Filipinos abroad—anchors strong domestic consumption.
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The deficit on secondary income, worker remittances and grants, fell $3.1 billion to $37.6 billion.
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Remittances are a key part of sustaining the economy in Mexico, especially in poorer communities.
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Older and disabled immigrants, on the other hand, are much less likely to send remittances.
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Expatriate remittances fell to $6.14 billion in the quarter from $7.1 billion year-on-year.
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"With the remittances coming in, the trend will get reversed in December," he told Reuters.
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The rupee strengthened 0.28 percent on Thursday on inward remittances ahead of Eid al-Adha.
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It also includes smaller items, such as foreign remittances and income earned on foreign investments.
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Remittances tend to be at their lowest in January and at their highest in May.
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In 2016, about $4.6 billion in remittances accounted for 17 percent of El Salvador's economy.
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But one account holder in Mexico received 1,400 remittances from 1403 senders in 40 states.
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Consider that remittances (money sent home from overseas) account for 17% of the country's GDP.
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Remittances from Egyptian workers abroad rose to $6.713 billion from $5.909 billion a year before.
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Ending the program would deal a significant blow to a lifeline of Haiti's economy: remittances.
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This raises the question of how Trump would differentiate between legal and unauthorized immigrants' remittances.
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Remittances are an important indicator of the symbiotic economic relationship between Mexico and the US. When Mexican immigrants feel the US labor market is hostile to them - regardless of whether that hostility is real or perceived -- they tend to return home, and therefore, remittances decrease.
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While on average only around 3 percent, some $2 billion, of remittances sent to Africa are received through post offices, in countries where they play an active role, their market share in remittances has grown to up to 20 percent, the IFAD report said.
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Under Trump, less people will now be eligible to receive remittances from their Cuban-American families in the U.S. However, Trump kept an Obama-era policy that removed the cap on the amount of remittances that U.S. citizens can send to their Cuban relatives.
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In the Gulf, the source of 60% of Bangladesh's remittances, the economy has been relatively sluggish.
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There's no way of knowing if these transfers are remittances or some other kind of payment.
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The World Bank, for example, estimated remittances to sub-Saharan Africa at $38 billion in 2017.
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The remittances of the hundreds of thousands who have gone before them keep the economy alive.
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Entrepreneurs cannot raise capital, making those with access to remittances from abroad richer than the rest.
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Aid, tourism, investment and remittances (the last alone worth 14% of GDP), are all sharply down.
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Last year, remittances to Sri Lanka fell after growing solidly from 2011-2014, the report noted.
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But the harder it gets to send remittances through formal channels, the more tempting alternatives become.
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People who receive remittances tend to spend the money quickly, so it circulates through local economies.
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Remittances from the diaspora can be a lifeline for many, though they also distort the economy.
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Remittances to Mexico totaled $2.52 billion last month, compared with $2.189 billion in March last year.
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There is to be a limit on remittances to Cuba, of $1,000 per person per quarter.
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Indonesian migrant workers contributed around $9.6 billion in remittances in 2015, according to the World Bank.
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The Mexican economy heavily relies on four sectors: oil exports, tourism, manufacturing exports and foreign remittances.
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Espenilla also said the Philippines' external position is underpinned by strong remittances, exports and outsourcing contracts.
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Remittances make up the second-largest source of foreign exchange receipts in Nigeria, after oil revenues.
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He has said we should ban remittances to families in Mexico if Mexico doesn't pay up.
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The new government will be faced with an economy plagued by dwindling exports, manufacturing and remittances.
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A bulwark, say some, is remittances: money sent home by migrants, worth $303 billion in 230.
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Cutting off those remittances would hit households hardest that would least afford to lose that support.
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Facebook says its primary use case would be for remittances, where people send money across borders.
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In 2017 it recorded growth of 5 percent as exports recovered and remittances from abroad rose.
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"There were some inflows too ... could have been exporter conversions or inward remittances," the dealer added.
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In 2017 Georgia recorded growth of 5 percent as exports recovered and remittances from abroad rose.
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Under the projections, the remittances to Treasury drop to a trough of $55 billion by 2020.
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Fees associated with services such as remittances make a traditional retail bank expensive for those customers.
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In Singapore, start-up Toast gave up using bitcoin for remittances so it could get licensed.
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Many businesses on the island begin with the remittances émigrés send back from the United States.
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Around 72 percent, $3.3 billion, of fourth quarter remittances came after the float, the bank added.
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The Philippine economy is heavily dependent on remittances, with 10 percent of the population working overseas.
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The former Soviet republic's economy depends heavily on remittances from Kyrgyz migrant labourers working in Russia.
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The mainstays of the economy - remittances and the outsourcing sector - are flourishing and boosting domestic consumption.
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In many countries, remittances contribute to more than double of all sources of foreign aid combined.
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They also stand to benefit from higher U.S. economic growth due to remittances from overseas workers.
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Poland is the largest recipient of remittances with total inflows of 1 billion euros a year.
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After all, if banks respond to a ban on remittances to Mexico sent by unauthorized immigrants by refusing to send any remittances to Mexico at all, it will (theoretically) put even more pressure on the Mexican government to pay for that border wall he wants so much.
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Filipinos in the Middle East sent home $5.4 billion in remittances in January to October last year, accounting for a fifth of total remittances for that period, making the region a major source of foreign exchange inflows which help drive growth in the consumption-led Philippine economy.
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Remittances are a massive market, and a holy grail of cryptocurrencies, and WhatsApp is widely used worldwide.
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In many cases their remittances are the main source of income for the families that have remained.
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The World Bank estimates that $343m in remittances flowed from Ivory Coast to Burkina Faso in 2015.
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"The government recognizes the [Middle East as a] critical source of remittances for India," said Riser-Kositsky.
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The second is Ripple development, a payment protocol used for distributed processes for remittances, payments and exchanges.
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Over a million of Moldova's 4.3m citizens live abroad, and remittances are about a fifth of GDP.
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As a share of GDP, Kyrgyzstan comes top: remittances were a staggering 35% of output in 2017.
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The trade deficit is offset by private transfer receipts, mainly remittances back home by Indians employed overseas.
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However, the Central American nations are far more dependent on remittances from migrants in the United States.
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He threatened to enforce that plan by taxing remittances sent home by Mexicans in the United States.
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Tourism, peanut production and overseas remittances are crucial to the economy of the country of 1.8 million.
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Remittances sent from Mexicans living in the United States are a crucial part of the Mexican economy.
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Many depend on remittances from migrants to Russia, but these are dwindling as recession bites there, too.
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The bigger picture: Adding new access points for digital remittances is key as the industry shifts online.
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The expansion gives Xoom access to seven of the top 53 countries worldwide for outflows of remittances.
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The company is today a financial hub for everything from remittances and credit cards to tax help.
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"Today, there were some exporter (dollar) sales and some inward remittances," said a currency dealer, requesting anonymity.
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Such fears risk weakening the flow of remittances that Lebanon relies on to finance its fiscal deficit.
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Global remittances to low and middle-income countries alone are expected to reach 485 billion in 2018.
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Conservative organizations seeking to reduce immigration levels argue that remittances are a drain on the American economy.
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Here are some more examples of places where remittances account for a big chunk of the economy.
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One of the largest exporters of manpower in the world, Bangladesh depends heavily on remittances from abroad.
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Remittances can include personal checks, money orders, electronic transfers and cash, according to the central bank's website.
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It is estimated that two-thirds of the remittances to Mexico are from its nationals here illegally.
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Remittances from abroad will be transferred more easily, which will help lift domestic consumption and the economy.
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He intends to bank heavily on the Pakistani diaspora, which is already a major source of remittances.
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Without the cushions of sun, family, remittances and a deep civilization, there would have been violent mayhem.
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Mass deportations might also result in the loss of many millions of dollars in remittances for Mexico.
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Remittances, a valuable source of income and foreign currency from Lebanese working abroad, have dipped as well.
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The adjustment of visible trade has been supported by rising services receipts (particularly tourism), remittances, and FDI.
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That makes it tough for officials to track these money flows, which is why there's such a huge difference between the official and unofficial statistics for remittances sent out of the US. It also, obviously, makes it very difficult to regulate remittances, as Trump is proposing to do.
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This does not pose an immediate threat, but alarms a government used to double-digit growth in remittances.
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Finserve is also targeting the remittances business, where people living outside their home country regularly send money back.
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Migrant remittances sent home — even from poorly paid black market jobs — are important to their homeland&aposs economy.
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The economics of remittances surprise a lot people, even those who aren't sympathetic to Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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In short, if you're worried about America competing with Mexico for manufacturing jobs, remittances help rather than hurt.
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The 35m people of Mexican origin living in the United States send back $25bn a year in remittances.
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Total external inflows are expected to increase slightly this year, partly due to a projected rise in remittances.
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Ramos at Goldman Sachs said a competitive exchange rate and rising workers' remittances also contributed to the surplus.
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In December the central bank launched an initiative to promote the use of e-wallets for cheaper remittances.
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Remittances go straight into people's pockets, pay for better education and health, and are used to start businesses.
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I'd like to see real remittances, real real estate transactions and even real voting systems put in place.
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Herrera said bringing down the cost for financial services like remittances would help many of the nation's neediest.
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Banks feel blockchain technology can be utilized in areas from remittances to securities exchanges to bring about efficiency.
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Leveraging this, it attacks the segment on international remittances, which is 10 times cheaper than traditional bank offerings.
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"That's the only reason why it works as a medium for doing remittances around the world," Leow said.
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Other proposals, like a tax on remittances or seizing money from drug cartels are equally difficult or impractical.
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Steady remittances from workers abroad, a booming service sector and low oil prices have helped keep demand humming.
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Ismail has published widely-cited research on the effect of remittances in Somaliland following the country's civil war.
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Remittances helped plug the current-account deficit, but they may also deter Romanians from entering the labour market.
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The move attracted at least $8 billion in remittances that once found their way to the black market.
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Already in 2017, Portugal held the record for highest surplus in remittances, beating Poland by 242 million euros.
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Monthly remittances usually dip to their lowest in January, after the holiday season, and start climbing in February.
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This year, the pattern changed, with January and February both netting $2 billion in remittances. http://bit.ly/2pVFypk.
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Blockchain technology could benefit from remittances since transactions are anonymous and are not regulated by any governing body.
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Kenya is boosting remittances with the technology while in South Africa, it is being used for identity verification.
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Venezuelans with access to dollars — through remittances or savings squirreled away before the crisis — are surviving this crisis.
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Two other targets — bringing in new business and cash remittances — were also ahead of schedule, the company said.
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With $436 billion in remittances flowing to families in developing countries in 2014, the market opportunity is significant.
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But in December, we expect the rupee to recover as remittances are expected before Christmas and New Year.
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A quarter of the Cuban workforce has entered the private sector, relying primarily on remittances for working capital.
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Millions of Salvadorans rely on remittances from the United States; last year some $4.5 billion was sent home.
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Lee said North Korea's health care system relies in part on remittances sent back by doctors working abroad.
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And remittances, averaging perhaps as much as $3 billion annually, are a vital lifeline for the Cuban economy.
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Their return spells an end to remittances that constitute about 10 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
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Extra income is only possible when a family member goes to work in the city and sends remittances.
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Extra income is only possible when a family member goes to work in the city and sends remittances.
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Their modest economic growth is largely dependent on commodity exports and remittances from emigrants in the United States.
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Moreover, white Cubans received 78 percent of remittances to Cuba, and they controlled 000 percent of private companies.
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Remittances and copper prices have also picked up and growth in Russia should improve this year, Samiei said.
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Forecasts growth in key categories, including in-store payments, e-commerce, mobile P2P payments, remittances, and B2B payments.
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Remittances are this year set to top $8 billion, equivalent to roughly three-quarters of the Guatemalan budget.
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Overseas remittances hit $29.7 billion in 2016, up five percent from a year ago, according to BSP data.
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Mr. Trump originally threatened to simply impound remittances, a matter of dubious legal standing and some logistical complication.
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Similar informal arrangements could crop up in Latin America if Trump were to crack down on formal remittances.
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But even dividend remittances and other items on China's current account, liberalised in the late 1990s, have been affected.
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The bulk of remittances came from the United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Japan and the Britain.
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Bangladesh is one of the largest exporters of manpower in the world and depends heavily on remittances from abroad.
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Remittances and EU money for infrastructure upgrades have helped, but labour shortages discourage foreign investment and hurt economic growth.
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Until then millions of Zimbabweans will continue to work abroad, sending vital remittances home so their families can eat.
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And the cost of remittances is high, on average 210%, but as high as 23.75% to certain African countries.
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So unsurprisingly, remittance companies have spotted an opportunity to move some of the huge market for remittances to mobile.
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The state of New Jersey has cast doubt on the city's abilities to make payments like school district remittances.
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Migration "needed to be made to pay back home", Ms Wills writes, and this was achieved by sending remittances.
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Sending remittances abroad will cost 99 pence, plus an "exchange rate adjustment charge" of up to 2.5 per cent.
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A key driver of rising incomes in Cuba is remittances, or money transfers by foreigners to their home countries.
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It's harder to send remittances to family members in foreign countries, or make personal loans to friends across borders.
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But in the long term, they will make more money in richer countries, and so send more remittances home.
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Remittances for the month of January were up 23 percent year-on-year, reaching $1.6 billion, the statement said.
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That makes sense since initial reports indicated Facebook's target with crypto is international remittances and users without bank accounts.
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Migrant remittances accounted for 11% of Guatemalan GDP in 2017, according to the IMF, a total of $8.2 billion.
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Trump has also threatened to target remittances, or cash transfers from people within the US to people in Mexico.
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"There were some inflows from remittances after the long weekend," a currency dealer said, asking not to be named.
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They'd sometimes send remittances to his parents—which was his only connection to them, now—but these came infrequently.
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Unlike portfolio flows, which tend to flee at the first sign of trouble, remittances usually increase in tough times.
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The experience in 22014 of Central Asia and the Caucasus, regions exceptionally dependent on remittances from Russia, shows why.
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Nearly $25 billion in U.S. remittances were sent home last year, the Post said, citing the Mexican central bank.
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Investments made the biggest contribution to second quarter Philippine growth, followed by household consumption, which was underpinned by remittances.
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Fortunately, Fiji has a robust and growing tourism industry and, like many Pacific countries, reliable remittances from overseas workers.
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Everest is a big draw for Nepal's $471m tourism industry, the country's second-biggest foreign-exchange earner after remittances.
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Remittances grew in 2015 for the 14th year in a row and now account for around 295% of GDP.
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In 2019 the World Bank predicts that remittances will be the largest source of external financing for such countries.
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The EU as a whole sends 22 billion euros more abroad than it receives in remittances, Eurostat data showed.
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Borrowing, remittances and FDI inflows were not sufficient to cover the ensuing gap (of around USD212000 million for 4807123Q212001).
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This would help boost foreign exchange supply and encourage capital inflows and a free flow of remittances, he said.
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"Today, there was less import demand and we have seen some remittances and exporter conversions," said a currency dealer.
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Likewise, ending TPS will cause some short-term disruption to the home countries from the loss of the remittances.
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Finally, an update to TechCrunch reporting on Nigeria-based SureRemit's plans to launch a crypto token aimed at remittances.
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Global remittances, which include flows to high-income countries, are projected to grow by 3.9 percent to $596 billion.
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In Jamaica, remittances as a percentage of gross domestic product were 16.9 percent in 2015, the World Bank said.
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So bitcoin has been very useful at helping people send money, whether it's remittances or transfers by big multinationals.
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Britons alone transfer over $26 billion in remittances overseas annually, many sending money to help family members pay bills.
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In 2015, officially recorded remittances to developing countries totalled $431.6 billion, up 0.4 percent on 2014's $23 billion.
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Remittances are an important source of foreign revenue for the country; Banxico reported $26.9 billion was sent in 2016.
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Remittances are not taxed because they are transfers of previously owned money rather than payments for goods or services.
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Economists estimate that remittances make up a third of Nepal's gross domestic product, one of the world's highest rates.
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The spread of the virus to countries with significant numbers of Sri Lankan workers could affect remittances, it said.
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Remittances from the United States make up 25 percent of Haiti's gross domestic product, according to the World Bank.
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Dealers expect the rupee to be under pressure till the end of the month before seasonal inward remittances begin.
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Around 4.5 million Moroccans live abroad, most of them in Europe, and their annual remittances total about $6 billion.
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The Guardian reported that he had been sending remittances to his family in Mexico to build a house there.
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The World Bank estimates that remittances from abroad made up 843% of El Salvador's Gross Domestic Product in 2016.
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump recently attacked remittances from illegal immigrants as a form of "welfare" for Mexicans.
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According to the World Bank, remittances to Mexico totaled nearly $25 billion in 2015, their highest level since 2008.
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One was an increase in the daily limit for remittances from Macau to the mainland to $11,400 from $7,100.
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But it should be amply covered by receipts from remittances and business process outsourcing sector, the central bank said.
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The 2017 figure is on pace to become the all-time high for remittances, according to central bank numbers.
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Remittances are now equivalent to 32.1 percent of the country's GDP, up from 10.9 percent in 2004, it added.
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Guatemala's cash-strapped treasury depends on bountiful aid from America's government, and remittances from abroad make up 11% of GDP.
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The evidence for this claim is an upward trend in remittances from the U.S. to Mexico between 2014 and 2015.
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Currencies were flat however , showing little reaction to Brexit jitters despite the region's links with Britain for jobs and remittances.
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The organization also noted the true size of remittances, including unrecorded flows through formal or informal channels, was significantly larger.
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Dealers expect the trend to continue till the end of the month before the seasonal inward remittances start coming in.
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"We'd probably be one of the poorest communities in Laguna (province) if not for remittances", village chief Gregoria Catipon said.
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But even if you set all that aside, stopping remittances to Mexico is also simply bad for the American economy.
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Trump's election upset has sent shockwaves through Mexico and Central America, which rely heavily on U.S. remittances and bilateral trade.
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On the plus side, by depressing the peso, Mr Trump has made remittances from Mexicans in the US more valuable.
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Remittances rose by 6.2 percent in December compared with the same month a year earlier to more than $2.3 billion.
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Many migrants send home remittances, and in some countries that far exceeds what their governments take in traditional donor aid.
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Some studies have estimated that every $1 sent back home as remittances creates around $1.60 to $1.70 in economic activity.
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In 2017, 15.9 percent of SCB's 30.3 billion baht ($970.22 million) of net fee income included bank transfer and remittances.
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Cash remittances to Cuba in 2013 were $2.8 billion with 90 percent originating from the United States, the company said.
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There also was talk about having Mexico pay for a border wall by blocking money transfers, or so-called remittances.
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The Libra whitepaper, accordingly, prominently cites "remittances" in its problem statement … … but makes only a few handwavey mentions of exchanges.
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Tourism revenues more than doubled to $23bn (4% of GDP) last year, while remittances grew by a fifth to $26.4bn.
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In Pakistan, for example, remittances last year were worth about $20bn, not much less than all the country's merchandise exports.
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Update (November 16th 2017): The original version of this article said that remittances make up 20% of the Lebanese economy.
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Many send money home, although remittances have been hit by the effect of the low oil price on Gulf economies.
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Remittances are now worth more than three times the value of official development assistance, which came to $159bn last year.
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Hared's clients, he said, had reported a range of crippled services including passport and e-tickets printing and money remittances.
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The economy is also being propped up by record remittances from abroad and the government's expansionary fiscal policies at home.
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Embassies in Washington and in Havana will remain open, sources tell CNN, and Cuban American travel and remittances remain unaffected.
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The lesson of a tough year is obvious: though remittances can finance development, they are not a substitute for it.
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Remittances from people working abroad to relatives back home rose 7 percent in 2017 to $613 billion, the FSB said.
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Most remittances ($117 billion) came from the United States, followed by Europe ($115 billion) and the Gulf states ($100 billion).
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The country depends heavily on foreign remittances and has an official policy of encouraging citizens to look for jobs abroad.
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The Ugandan shilling is likely to strengthen, helped by remittances from Ugandans working abroad and inflows from non-governmental organisations.
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Governments are often content to see young people leave: emigrants relieve pressure on labour markets and send home juicy remittances.
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A global recession would reduce tourism and remittances from Jamaicans abroad, which accounted for around 16% of GDP in 2018.
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Remittances to Nigeria totaled about $20.8 billion in 2015, according to data from Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development.
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Read more: Majority — a digital bank offering packages for prepaid cards, remittances, and international calling — is launching in the US
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Remittances are one of Mexico's top sources of foreign currency, alongside earnings from manufactured exports, oil and foreign direct investment.
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Remittances reached $16.3 billion since Egypt floated its currency in November through August, a 17.3 percent increase, the statement said.
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She sends money to her mom each month; remittances like those make up more than 17% of the country's GDP.
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"Today, we have seen some exporter (dollar) sales and inward remittances due to the salary payments," a currency dealer said.
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President Trump has suggested taxing or impounding remittances as a way to make Mexico pay for his proposed border wall.
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Mexico does not tax receptors of remittances, as long as the transfers are for less than a pre-determined amount.
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The overwhelming aid that Central America is getting now is billions of dollars every year from remittances sent by immigrants.
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The North Korean government was clamping down on the flow of remittances that many defectors send home via Chinese middlemen.
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"Also people are not working in some parts of the west, so remittances from Diaspora workers have dwindled," Bukenya said.
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The United States has urged countries to eject North Korean workers, saying their remittances benefit the military, not their families.
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Remittances for the month of July rose to $1.8 billion compared with $1.2 billion during July last year, it said.
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Trump has not specified how Mexico would pay for the wall, but he previously suggested his government would impound remittances.
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This was an attempt to hoover up dollars from remittances and curb inflation by offering Cubans an alternative to dollars.
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All of which makes lower remittances a far smaller headache for India than for its neighbors - Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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Critics also say a tax on remittances would likely push Mexicans to find other ways to get cash over the border.
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Remittances are the second biggest source of income in the country after its oil, and helped Mexico weather the global recession.
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Will Trump go after remittances from Mexicans living in the US -- Mexico's largest source of cash -- to pay for the wall?
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According to data from the World Bank, China and India received $65.4 billion and $65.2 billion in remittances respectively, last year.
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About 11.7 million Mexican immigrants live in the United States, and last year Mexico received about $24 billion back in remittances.
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Indeed, Mexico received nearly $443bn in remittances in 2015 according to its central bank, equivalent to 2.3% of the country's GDP.
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Remittances from Cuban-Americans, tourism and nickel mines, run by a Canadian firm, replaced sugar as the mainstay of the economy.
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Fitch expects the economy to expand 6.7% in 2016 supported by strong domestic demand and external receipts of tourism and remittances.
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That would reduce outward remittances of money, helping Saudi Arabia's balance of payments further, but it would drag on economic growth.
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The peso has hit a record low in the wake of Trump's win given his comments on trade, remittances and immigrants.
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The former Soviet republic has been hit by a drop in exports and remittances and a plunge in the Russian rouble.
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And it would definitely not be great if countries like Mexico didn't have the economic multiplier effect that receiving remittances provides.
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Remittances from millions of Filipinos working overseas have traditionally funded the private consumption that drives three-fourths of the Philippine economy.
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The World Bank estimates that the global average cost of remittances is 7.5 percent — and has been trending up in 2016.
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Remittances from the states to the region amounted to $74 billion in 2016, a 7.4 percent increase from the previous year.
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WorldRemit is the start-up trying to take on the $600 billion remittances market and challenge players such as Western Union.
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The Fed regularly transfers its profits, known as remittances, to the Treasury Department in what amounts to payments to U.S. taxpayers.
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The economy has been hit by a plunge in the Russian rouble, a drop in remittances from overseas, and falling exports.
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The rupee usually appreciates in December ahead of Christmas and the new year due to remittances from Sri Lankan expatriates abroad.
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When an initial agreement fell through last week, Trump had threatened to impose tariffs, ban travelers and hit remittances with fees.
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But small countries such as Nepal, where remittances were equivalent to 30% of GDP in 2014, look vulnerable to future shocks.
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During the campaign, Trump threatened to have Mexico fund the wall by blocking remittances from Mexicans living in the United States.
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For households in Mexico's poorest regions, the remittances from family members living in the U.S. represent a critical financial life line.
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Filipinos living and working outside the country sent home a record $13.2 billion in remittances in the first half of 2016.
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Tighter immigration rules could impact remittances, which play an important role in the economies of many Latin American and Caribbean countries.
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Remittances from a steady flow of young men going to work overseas play a vital role in keeping the economy afloat.
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Digital's share of remittances has risen in recent years, so legacy players would be wise to secure new digital volume opportunities.
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Remittances — the business of money transfers — is a fragmented and huge market, currently estimated to be worth some $25 trillion annually.
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Jobs became scarce, and the fall of the Brazilian real meant that the remittances migrants sent home were worth far less.
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Remittances are more than 10% of GDP in 28 countries, and even higher in Tonga (39%), Haiti (34%) and Tajikistan (30%).
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"Month-end remittances and exporter dollar conversions helped the rupee to recover from the fall," said a currency dealer, requesting anonymity.
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A separate World Bank study found that remittances were the main reason poverty had declined so sharply there in recent years.
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Nothing major happened, but there was some dollar selling by a foreign bank and some inward remittances after the long weekend.
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He was an immigrant, 20 years old, and his remittances were the sole support for his mother and siblings in Guatemala.
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Tourism has collapsed, remittances from Egyptian workers in the Persian Gulf have dropped and revenue from the Suez Canal has fallen.
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Japan said on Wednesday it was imposing fresh sanctions on North Korea, clamping down on remittances of money to North Korea.
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He vowed to deport millions of undocumented U.S. immigrants, build a wall along the Mexican border and possibly even impound remittances.
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"Officially recorded remittances to developing countries are expected to grow by 4.8 percent to $20153 billion for 2017," its researchers write.
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This remains true in developing countries where family networks share incomes, including through migrant remittances, but it's not true in America.
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Caribbean states are both recipients and sources of remittances – Central American immigrants working in Belize, for instance, send earnings back home.
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Dealers expect pressure on the currency to ease with more inward remittances ahead of the traditional New Year on April 14.
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Uber's push into payments could also signal the potential for remittances, cross-border payments that totaled $613 billion worldwide in 2017.
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Remittances or money transfers make up the second-largest source of foreign exchange receipts in Africa's biggest economy after oil revenues.
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The Philippine economy is heavily dependent on remittances, with 10 percent of the country's population working overseas and sending money home.
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His best runner, 22-year-old Yessy Apaza, gets by thanks to remittances from his mother, a domestic worker in Spain.
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Mr. Trump has also tightened travel restrictions for Americans traveling to Cuba, and capped remittances to $1,000 per person, per quarter.
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Lists of expensive assets—cars, furniture, generators—purchased with remittances from Europe were included in obituaries, and envious neighbors took note.
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Cuba's fledgling economic changes coincided with the easing of restrictions on travel and remittances by Cuban Americans during the Obama administration.
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Riyadh and Dhaka have long maintained close bilateral relations, with the Kingdom being the largest source of Bangladesh's vital foreign remittances.
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Given President Trump's declared crackdown on illegal immigration in the United States, residents here worry about the future flow of remittances.
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The figure means remittances grew by 1.5 percent in the first quarter of the 2018/2019 financial year to $5.9 billion.
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The label confers status in the Philippines, which receives more money in remittances than any other country except India and China.
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Total remittances are projected to reach a record $27 billion in 85033, which is $2 billion more than the previous year.
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And change is trickling down into bigger industries long-dominated by cash and check, like remittances and business-to-business payments.
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Dealers expect pressure on the currency to ease with more inward remittances ahead of the traditional New Year in mid-April.
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After the ruling, Trump suggested he would retaliate by blocking all Guatemalan immigrants and introducing a new tax on their remittances.
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"The importer dollar demand is there and there were not much of remittances due to Haj festival holidays," one dealer said.
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"We have an economic model of development that relies significantly on tourism, remittances and foreign direct investment," said economist Najib Akesbi.
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"The importer demand was largely taken care by remittances in thin trade today," said a currency dealer on condition of anonymity.
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Kenya's Central Bank recorded remittances of $244 million in January alone, up from $209 million in the same month in 2018.
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He noted that investment had been sluggish this year but said remittances from abroad were helping to prop up private consumption.
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Total remittances account for more than 85033 percent of its gross domestic product, and more than 95 percent of them come from the U.S. If securing the border helped the U.S. hang on to some of the $31 billion annually that now goes as remittances to Mexico, then Mexico would indeed be paying for the wall.
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Some of Pakistan's faltering can be blamed on bad luck, such as a fall in remittances from workers in the Middle East.
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He also threatened to tax remittances — money that immigrants send home to family members — and to ban travel out of the country.
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Cryptocurrencies are an attractive censor-proof tool for remittances, but volatility can make crypto tokens a dangerous medium for transfers and savings.
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Portfolio investment is typically the most volatile source of inflows, but last year's $13 billion drop demonstrated how unreliable remittances can be.
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Taking note, an RBI panel warned last month that the likely impact on remittances should be factored into any monetary policy decisions.
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Even though remittances are a small portion of Mexico's GDP, they have a big impact in some of the country's poorest communities.
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Congressional leaders have priorities in that package that they will not want derailed if a plan to tax remittances becomes too controversial.
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Remittances from workers abroad rose to $5.91 billion from $5.82 billion while the trade deficit increased to $9.90 billion from $8.91 billion.
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Government officials also stress that rising remittances will stimulate internal consumption and that, in turn, will kick start job creation and growth.
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Worried about a slowdown in the overseas workers' remittances back to the country, it even cut banks' reserve ratio early this year.
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If remittances from the Gulf region slow, or workers are sent home, it will hit some of these poor economies particularly hard.
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With a trade deficit of nearly 20% of GDP, El Salvador depends on remittances from 13m Salvadoreans living in the United States.
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The largest number of migrants comes from Guatemala, and the country received $9.3 million in remittances in 2018, per the Washington Post.
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More remittances have a big impact on wealth gains among Cubans, especially when you consider how much Cubans earn from government jobs.
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Miami area customers snatched them up, then passed along the phones to friends and family back in Cuba as part of remittances.
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One of the more prohibitive elements of remittances, which adversely affects poorer users, is the high cost of sending money across borders.
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The banking transaction fees, the cost of remittances… — it's difficult for them to be enthusiastic about something they know doesn't work already.
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But people are afraid that remittances from family members abroad, a primary source of funding for such purchases, may soon dry up.
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The descent in the oil price hit fees from the Suez canal and crimped the value of remittances from oil-rich neighbours.
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The Republican has talked loudly about withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement, raising tariffs on Mexican imports and taxing remittances.
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Countries are often reluctant to accept the return of their nationals, not least because they can be a useful source of remittances.
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Correspondent banking refers to banks relying on counterparts in other countries to carry out checks on customers transferring money, such as remittances.
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For example, mobile money has not yet made much progress in international money transfers, where it could lower the cost of remittances.
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Consumer spending is strong, helped by $22 billion of remittances in the first 10 months from Filipinos overseas, a 4 percent rise.
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De Vasconcelos said relying on remittances is a symptom of poverty in developing nations that pushes people to find economic opportunities abroad.
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Kerala shares in this new industrialisation less than Tamil Nadu, but that is balanced by another source of prosperity: remittances from abroad.
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The World Bank estimates that of the ten countries that receive the most in remittances from overseas workers, five are in Asia.
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Remittances from the Filipino global diaspora totaled $26.9 billion in 2016 — equivalent to half the country's total export revenue for the year.
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Remittances to low- and middle-income countries reached a record high of $529bn in 2018, up nearly 10% from the previous year.
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Remittances by India's 20-million-strong diaspora account for a significant 4 percent of the country's gross domestic product, Mr. Leonard said.
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Sri Lanka's economy, which depends on tourism, garment manufacturing, tea exports and remittances, was already at a low point before the bombings.
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Georgia has been hit hard by a decline in exports and remittances and a plunge in the value of the Russian rouble .
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So far in 2017, remittances have totaled $23.9 billion, up more than 7 percent compared to the first 10 months of 2016.
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I helped to implement some of them leading up to the announcements when I was secretary of state, expanding travel opportunities, remittances.
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In 219, for instance, Belize received $216 million in remittances, compared to $280 million the previous year, according to the central bank.
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Remittances have surged since Obama started easing restrictions, becoming an important part of the economy and fueling growth of the private sector.
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Some experts panned the idea, saying it would be legally impossible to single out Mexican remittances from those going to other countries.
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In 2015, remittances became the main source of foreign currency in the country, surpassing oil revenue, foreign investment, tourism and manufacturing exports.
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With much lower oil prices, those remittances will crash and skilled workers will return, unemployed, to markets that can't provide for them.
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For instance, during a press call about Libra, Facebook executives brought up remittances several times as a perfect use case for Calibra.
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As well as communication, many Rohingya rely on cell phones to inform them about remittances sent by their families around the world.
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In Nigeria 53 percent of unbanked adults use domestic remittances; similar shares do so in Côte d'Ivoire, the Philippines, and South Africa.
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Regardless, Brown said, there is no magical mechanism, related to remittances or anything else, by which Mexico is paying for the wall.
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Trump clamps down on El Salvador's 'lifeline' Remittances, the money immigrants send home, make up more than 17% of El Salvador's GDP.
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Fitch estimates the current account deficit narrowed to 4.3% of GDP in 2015, from 7.3% in 2014, despite the drop in remittances.
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Mexicans sent a total of $24.8 billion in remittances in 2015, overtaking oil income as a source of revenue for the country.
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Cash remittances from Filipinos working and living abroad are likely to grow 3% this year and next year, the central bank said.
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Cryptocurrency has also paved the way for fast, cost-effective remittances — money transfers from friends and family abroad — that elude government restrictions.
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Hundi is cheaper, faster and thought to handle at least as much in remittances as banks, without foreign currency ever crossing the border.
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Expatriate savings are an obvious source, and are now, in effect, helping pay for Bangladesh's imports from outside the country, shrinking official remittances.
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The deficit on secondary income, U.S. government grants, pensions, fines and penalties, and worker remittances surged by $7.5 billion in the second quarter.
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A stronger euro will also help the tourism sector and remittances from the 4.5 million Moroccans living abroad, mostly in the euro zone.
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Turning back travel, remittances, greater support for the Cuban people, and commercial engagement will hurt the very people who sanctions aim to support.
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An association of Australian firms involved with remittances said it was working with regulators and the government to seek a long-term solution.
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The list of potential sanctions against Lebanon, political sources there say, could include a ban on flights, visas, exports and transfer of remittances.
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Finserve is also teaming up with an unnamed fintech firm and six Ethiopian banks to make its remittances platform available in the country.
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If, on the other hand, families in Mexico use their remittances to buy things made in the United States, then American exports increase.
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Most of the remittances sent to the country come from elsewhere in west Africa, although some come from France—the former colonial power.
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Remittances from Egyptians abroad, another key source of hard currency, slipped to $6.17 billion from $6.46 billion in the same period last year.
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Mr Maduro has partially lifted exchange controls in a seeming attempt to boost remittances from those migrants, and has promised a new currency.
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Foreign remittances from his sons, including a third who still lives in Germany, helped pay for the construction of his three-story home.
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Remittances to Sri Lanka, more than 50 percent of which came from GCC countries, account for around 9 percent of GDP, Moody's noted.
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Supported by record remittances from overseas workers, the Mexican consumer is in rude health, with retail sales growing at 8 percent a year.
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Uzbekistan's economy is heavily dependent on energy and cotton exports, as well as remittances from millions of workers abroad in places like Russia.
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Indians working in the Emirates send more than $12 billion back to India annually, making the UAE India's largest single source of remittances.
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Remittances and the BPO sector are key pillars of the Philippine economy, contributing 10 and 6 percent, respectively, to annual gross domestic product.
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That is low compared with remittances from workers sent abroad by the state, which are estimated to be in the hundreds of millions.
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He works with local officials in Mexico to help channel remittances into projects in Ixmiquilpan, including a roof over a village school yard.
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The banking sector is vitally important to Lebanon as a conduit for billions of dollars of annual remittances that keep its economy afloat.
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Chinpo had applied for a total of 212 outward remittances totalling $40 million from 2009 to 2013 on behalf of North Korean entities.
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In contrast, it would be a little ridiculous for me to say 'remittances is a $27 billion market and is ripe for innovation.
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Mexicans sent a record $33.5 billion in remittances in 2018, a 10.5 percent jump from a year earlier, Mexican central bank data shows.
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Trump on Tuesday threatened to block remittances from undocumented Mexican migrants if elected president unless the country pays billions for his planned wall.
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This can be seen particularly in the area of remittances, which are important sources of income for many poor families in emerging economies.
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The Financial Stability Board is concerned this could harm households in developing countries that rely on remittances and potentially drive some payments underground.
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Companies such as London-based Tranferwise and remittances firm Worldremit claim to offer a cheaper and faster money transfer service than Western Union.
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More than 2 million Filipinos work overseas, with the remittances sent home forming an important source of revenue for the southeast Asian nation.
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Foreign remittances incur transfer fees, bank-to-bank wires incur fees, check-cashing incurs fees, paying vendors with PayPal incurs fees, etc. etc.
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However, under U.S. rules, remittances involving suspicious accounts must be declared to New York financial authorities, which Mega failed to do, he said.
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Remittances from North Koreans working abroad could be seized; by some estimates Pyongyang grabs as much as $2 billion of these a year.
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"Tourism is looking bright; remittances are quite robust; foreign investment is through the roof," says Franco Uccelli, JPMorgan's chief economist for the country.
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"Today we see some inward remittances and the demand (from importers) is also there," a currency dealer said, asking not to be named.
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Countries south of our border benefit from an estimated $28503 billion windfall from the United States each year in the form of remittances.
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State salaries average $30 a month, leaving workers struggling to feed their families, and often dependent on corruption or remittances from relatives overseas.
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Cuba's economy is struggling, dragged down by the dual-currency system Fidel Castro adopted in 1994 to attract cash remittances from Cuban expats.
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A lot of it is earned in the United States, where immigrants sent $54 billion in remittances to their home countries in 2015.
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The Philippine central bank is seeking to regulate virtual currency exchanges amid the increasing usage of cryptocurrencies, particularly in money remittances and payments.
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Other airlines such as EasyJet plc and Qantas Airways Ltd offer travel money cards but they do not have remittances or lending businesses.
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COLOMBO, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee closed stronger on Wednesday on dollar sales by exporters and year-end remittances, dealers said.
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CAIRO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Remittances from expatriate Egyptians rose 40 percent year on year in August, a central bank statement said on Sunday.
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Sri Lanka's $4.4 billion tourism sector is the country's third largest and fastest-growing source of foreign currency, after remittances and garment exports.
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The World Bank is actively working with the G20 and other partners to increase choice for senders and lower the cost of remittances.
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Tourism is a mainstay in the country of 1.8 million and the economy is otherwise reliant on peanut production and remittances from overseas.
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As Vox's Dara Lind pointed out at the time Trump floated this proposal, Mexicans emigrants do send home a large amount in remittances.
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The state hardly bothers to collect taxes — they represent a smaller percentage of gross national product than remittances — and does little with them.
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Families of Mexican Americans would pay if remittances were seized, and Mexican workers residing in America would pay if visa fees were raised.
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This is made harder by the fact that remittances from workers abroad make up about 10 percent of the GDP of the Philippines.
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Each harvest season, thousands of migrants seeking a better life and remittances to send home to their families land in Italy's southern regions.
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It then uses the pesos of Cubans who want to invest at least the equivalent of $150 in crypto to pay the remittances.
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In 2018, Nigeria received over $25 billion in remittances, a figure which exceeded the country's federal budget of $23.7 billion for that year.
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Ahmed said he was scouting for acquisitions of niche players to further expand in Australia, already WorldRemit's second-biggest market for outbound remittances.
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They sent $79 billion in remittances to India in 173, the most of any country in the world, according to World Bank data.
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Much of the space in the city centre not filled by exotic restaurants is occupied by shops offering international phone plans and remittances.
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That would set off a showdown with Mexico, given that its economy relies on the flow of remittances sent by Mexicans living abroad.
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Since the 1960s, remittances from the Gulf have been the backbone of Kerala's economy, making up a third of its gross domestic product.
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It employs about 1.15 million people and, along with remittances from overseas workers, remains one of the top two earners of foreign exchange.
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Kholifey said no such a step was intended, however, because although the remittances were huge, the number of foreign workers was also large.
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"The importer demand was there, but it was outweighed by inward remittances and exporter conversions," said a currency dealer on condition of anonymity.
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As Oklahoma discovered when it imposed a fee on money transfers abroad in 2010, that would drive remittances into some other, untaxed channel.
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Western Union converts remittances into bolívars at the official government rate, which often is about half of the rate on the black market.
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Sending them home would strain the Honduran economy, which relies on remittances from abroad and could not integrate tens of thousands of deportees.
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Ahsan Mansur of the Dhaka-based Policy Research Institute also links falling remittances to the rising demand among Bangladeshis to hold foreign currency abroad.
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Money-transfer firms, especially those handling remittances to poor countries, and charities that work in conflict zones, have been hit hard by this "derisking".
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Emirates NBD said in October it was working with India's ICICI on a pilot project to use blockchain for global remittances and trade finance.
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Jobs in the tiny West African nation, famed for its beaches, are scarce and remittances make up more than a fifth of national output.
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Trump has suggested some of the $25 billion in annual remittances that migrants return home would be retained to pay for the border wall.
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The deal comes as the Trump administration commences a crackdown on illegal immigration, which could impact remittances, the money that migrants workers send home.
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"There were inward remittances in the latter part of the day ahead of the festival," a currency dealer said, asking not to be named.
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Remittances also remained strong at USD15bn on an annual basis in February 20163, dwarfing the roughly USD3bn annual inflow of foreign project-based aid.
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A decline in exports, and in remittances from Georgians working abroad, has added to pressure on the lari, while the government deficit is rising.
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Latvia, Croatia, Hungary and Lithuania are the most reliant on remittances in the EU, all with over 3 percent of GDP coming from abroad.
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"To celebrate remittances being higher than oil income is pure stupidity," said well-known economist David López of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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But Obama used executive orders to loosen travel and trade restrictions, lift some limits on remittances and allow US banks' greater access to Cuba.
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Cash remittances in the first seven months of the year rose 5 percent from a year earlier to $16.095 billion, central bank data showed.
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Remittances from workers in Saudi Arabia play a crucial role in some of the smaller and poorer economies of the Middle East and Asia.
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We expect this liquidity position to remain strong, supported by steady cash-remittances to Aviva (GBP0003 billion in 2016 and GBP1.5 billion in 2015).
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Remittances aren't just good for American consumers, they're also good for American firms and job creation, by making American industry more competitive with Mexico.
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Most keep in touch, sending remittances (and, if they are successful, venture capital), circulating ideas and connections, and even returning home as successful entrepreneurs.
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"This would help boost foreign exchange supply and encourage capital inflows and a free flow of remittances," he told a bushiness forum in Lagos.
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"This investment is an opportunity to bring a global leader in digital remittances into the LeapFrog portfolio," said Stewart Langdon, partner at LeapFrog Investments.
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Apple's lawsuit over the remittances began the same month the US Federal Trade Commission announced a lawsuit of its own against Qualcomm's patent practices.
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He promised repeatedly to make Mexico pay for a border wall that he would build, perhaps by taxing the remittances Mexican migrants send home.
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Remittances can be sent to family members and other Cuban nationals for family expenses and personal support for private economic activity, the company said.
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Remittances from many of these people to families in the Philippines are often economic lifelines, and significant contributors to local economies throughout the country.
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DPRs are payment orders processed by banks and mainly reflect payments due on the export of goods and services, capital flows and personal remittances.
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Immigrants officially sent $51 billion in remittances home in 2012 — far larger than the US government's foreign aid budget of $39 billion that year.
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Kyrgyzstan hosts a Russian military airbase and its economy relies heavily on remittances from migrant laborers working in Russia, as well as gold mining.
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However, the former World Bank executive envisaged that the increasing use of money transfer apps would help bring down the cost of sending remittances.
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Ifrs operating profit: mid-single digit growth in medium term * cash: £7bn cumulative business unit remittances over period 2016-18 * Aviva's fundamentals are sound.
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Remittances by overseas Filipinos amount to more than $2 billion a month, keeping domestic demand robust in one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
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Armenia, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan also received remittances worth at least 10% of GDP—more than the Philippines, a country famous for its migrant workers.
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Correspondent banking refers to a bank relying on a bank in another country to carry out checks on customers transferring money, such as remittances.
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In El Salvador remittances were worth over 20 percent of GDP last year and more than 11 percent of total economic output in Guatemala.
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According to Mexico's Central Bank, Puebla received $1 billion in remittances in the same period, making it the fifth biggest recipient among Mexican states.
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Bangladesh depends heavily on foreign remittances, with at least 1 million securing jobs overseas in 2017, the largest number ever recorded by the government.
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So Trump has come up with another plan, by seizing a piece of the $25 billion in remittances that flow to Mexico every year.
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Revenue from tourism, some of which goes to small businesses, and remittances from the diaspora are growing, just as aid from Venezuela is diminishing.
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The next most important factor, unsurprisingly, is remittances, which make up more than 15% of the GDP of El Salvador and Honduras, for example.
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It takes in double the amount in remittances, in part because its diaspora is larger and located mainly in the United States and Spain.
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Growth is looking up, however; the World Bank projected a maintenance of 6.7 percent growth until 2020, boosted by increased infrastructure spending and remittances.
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Remittances to low- and middle income countries are three times greater than foreign aid Migrants typically share their gains with their families back home.
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A sharp slowdown in remittances is a downside risk, as over half come from Gulf economies that are still adjusting to lower energy prices.
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Trade with Britain is negligible, British direct or financial investments low and remittances from Albanians workers account for only 10 percent of the total.
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Trump purportedly plans on shrinking the number of such transactions — called remittances — by changing a rule in the USA Patriot Act anti-terrorism law.
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The digital bank it looking to serve customer who require banking services with high fees like remittances (cross-border money transfers) or cashiers checks.
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Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese work in the Gulf, sending back billions of dollars a year in remittances that help keep the economy afloat.
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Together with a small decline in remittances, this pushed the current account deficit to $5.5 billion in the July-February period, the bank said.
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The outcome promises a turbulent financial future for Mexico, which relies on America as an economic lifeline, both in terms of trade and remittances.
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On the campaign trail, Trump initially suggested paying for the wall by taxing or impounding remittances — the money immigrants send to their families abroad.
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Afro-Cubans, moreover, receive a very limited portion of the family remittances from the Cuban-American community in South Florida, which is mostly white.
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Faisal Bukenya, managing director at Pay Uganda, a forex dealer said an upsurge in offshore investor demand and slowing remittances were weakening the shilling.
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Nonetheless, the plan left most of Obama's policy intact: embassies remained open; direct commercial flights and cruises continued; Americans could still send unlimited remittances.
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The Washington Post reported last week that Mexicans living abroad sent nearly $25 billion in so-called remittances into their home country last year.
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These temporary migrants also earned 15 times what they could have back in Haiti, and sent the majority of their earnings home as remittances.
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Private transfer receipts, which reflect remittances, fell to $15.2 billion in April-June versus $16.3 billion a year ago, according to the RBI data.
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From 22012 to 20153, Banamex USA generated about 22015,2140 internal alerts of suspicious transactions among the 230 million Mexico remittances it processed, prosecutors said.
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He cautioned that the recovery in remittances and copper prices might not last and growth in key trading partners may be weaker than expected.
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"Overall, emigration reduces the available workforce and if not offset by remittances, typically results in increased food insecurity and deepening of poverty," it said.
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The Ugandan shilling is seen strengthening over the next one week on the back of inflows from charities and remittances from Ugandans working abroad.
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Their hard-earned remittances improved living standards for their families across the villages and towns of Nepal, which helped improve access to health care.
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Remittances from the men and women who work in factories and menial jobs far away pay for new homes, televisions, refrigerators and other improvements here.
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Its remittances to the Treasury have topped $90 billion a year for the last several years, but a smaller portfolio will mean less interest income.
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The Fed regularly transfers remittances, which are derived from profits on its bond holdings, to the Treasury in what amounts to payments to U.S. taxpayers.
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"Today, the exporter (dollar) conversions and inward remittances were not enough to service the importer demand," a currency dealer said, asking not to be named.
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Remittances has been one area that has been targeted because money transfers has one of the key uses for mobile phones in the developing world.
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But shoppers also include a growing number of residents who receive remittances from some two million Venezuelans who have emigrated to escape hunger and disease.
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Remittances from Sri Lankan overseas workers in oil-producing Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries account for around 9 percent of the country's GDP, Moody's noted.
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And economists agree that substantially understates remittances, since it only counts two of the ways migrants can send money home (we'll get to that later).
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When, for instance, a hurricane hits "one of the poorest developing countries," according to economist Dean Yang, remittances account for 20 percent of repair funding.
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The World Bank estimates that the true number might be closer to $130 billion in remittances — nearly four times what we send in foreign aid.
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He may also be uncomfortable about his country's reliance on China for everything from oil and remittances to the plane that flew him to Singapore.
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EGYPT'S REMITTANCES FROM EGYPTIAN WORKERS ABROAD FALL IN FIRST NINE MONTHS OF FY 2018/19 TO $18.2 BLN FROM $19.4 BLN A YEAR PRIOR - C.BANK
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They send plenty: remittances to developing countries are set to reach $215bn this year, beating foreign direct investment, the World Bank said on April 246th.
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The U.S. is Guatemala's number one trading partner and remittances from Guatemalans living in the U.S. make up roughly 12 percent of the country's GDP.
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Banks feel blockchain technology can be utilized in areas from remittances to securities exchanges in order to reduce costs and make the process more efficient.
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The president insists the U.S. can force Mexico to pay, perhaps by taxing remittances — cash residents send from America to friends or relatives in Mexico.
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President Robert Mugabe's government blames the shortages on the illegal export of U.S. dollars, weak commodity prices and falling remittances from Zimbabweans in the diaspora.
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Cumulative cash remittances for the period 2017 to end-June 2019 reached $9.2 billion, on track to exceed the targeted $9.5 billion by end-2019.
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Remittances sent home may provide some compensation for the loss that exit causes, but there is no guarantee that they will produce a net gain.
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Many companies have taken advantage of this opportunity, helping to make financial services more accessible — ranging from payments to student loans and savings to remittances.
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The region's remittances come mainly from America and the Middle East; a strong dollar and fiscal expansion in the Gulf have kept the money flowing.
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"The month-end inward remittances are there, but rupee is trading weaker on importer (dollar) demand," a currency dealer said, asking not to be named.
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Although the lari has stabilised since April and remittances from those working outside the country are rising, Georgia's currency began to depreciate again in September.
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The United Arab Emirates accounts for more than $19 billion of remittances per year, ranking it fourth in the world, according to World Bank data.
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COLOMBO, April 11 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee edged down on Tuesday as importer dollar demand and dividend payments outpaced mild inward remittances, dealers said.
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Nigeria is the world's fifth-biggest destination for international remittances with 5 million Nigerians living abroad sending money back to relatives, according to Western Union.
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If you add in money sent to to high-income countries, remittances reached $689 billion in 2018, up from $633 billion in 2017, it said.
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Most have crossed into the United States illegally, and their families, as well as the town's economy, are dependent on the remittances they send back.
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Remittances have moderated, as over half come from Gulf economies that are adjusting to lower energy prices, but a sharper slowdown is a downside risk.
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He also expressed optimism that fintechs would bring needed competition to the money transfer business, reducing the cost of remittances sent home by Mexicans abroad.
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Remittances from Egyptian workers in the Persian Gulf have dropped and revenue from the Suez Canal has fallen amid a slowdown in global economic trade.
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Funds for military activities are obtained from remittances that come from the forced labor of North Koreans sent overseas, as well as forced labor domestically.
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DPRs can arise for a variety of reasons but mainly reflect payments due on the export of goods and services, capital flows and personal remittances.
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Remittances in October were the highest for any month in data going back to 1995, eclipsing a previous record of $2.638 billion in October 2008.
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Nepal's economic livelihood depends on Indian exports, tourism and remittances from its citizens working in India, says Shailesh Kumar, Asia director for the Eurasia Group.
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He claims he'll get Mexico to pay us back using NAFTA re-negotiations and by potentially freezing remittances from Mexican nationals in the United States.
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The figure was flattered by personal income tax cuts, which reduced remittances to the government by 308 billion yuan ($43 billion), according to government estimates.
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Far from being a drain on society, migrants contribute both to the places they leave (in the form of remittances) and the places they go.
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Finally, the triad of policies that have kept the regime afloat since the end of the Cold War — migration, repression and remittances — remain in place.
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Growth was slightly better than expected among ANTAD's 100 members last year due to store openings, solid winter holiday sales and strong remittances, he said.
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Y.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.), also said remittances — money sent by immigrants to their home countries — are key in maintaining stability in Central America.
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Total remittances to Mexico, mostly coming from U.S.-based Mexican workers, amounted to nearly $27 billion in January to September, according to central bank data.
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Trump's election upset has sent shockwaves through Mexico and Central America, which rely heavily on U.S. remittances and bilateral trade with their rich northern neighbor.
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Along with Mr. Trump's inhumane and chauvinistic immigration policy, a recession in the United States would cause layoffs, forced returns and a drop in remittances.
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That's because hundreds of thousands of Filipinos work abroad in the Middle East and send billions of dollars home annually in the form of remittances.
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Remittances to Mexico, which are an important driver of retail sales, were 6.6 percent higher between January and August than in the year-earlier period.
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CAIRO, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Remittances from Egyptians abroad rose 20.4 percent year-on-year in September to $1.8 billion, the central bank said on Sunday.
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But remittances are not a reliable source of income and many Eritreans in Addis Ababa work as poorly-paid waiters, hairdressers or plumbers, Bethelihem said.
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The town runs on remittances: a store selling pens and paper is called Librería California, and coyote services are available for Spanish and Mam speakers.
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Although worldwide remittances dropped in 28503 for the first time since the Great Recession, transfers to Mexico are again growing in amount and buying power.
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Like other proposals Mr. Trump has floated — impounding remittances of Mexicans working in the United States, or charging Mexicans more for visas — it seems straightforward.
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COLOMBO, March 6 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee ended marginally weaker in thin trade on Monday, as importer dollar demand surpassed greenback remittances, dealers said.
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One potential policy of the current administration is causing major consternation: On the campaign stump, President Trump spoke of taxing or prohibiting remittances to Mexico.
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"Romania may be more exposed from a decline in remittances than Poland, since the Polish presence in the UK workforce is more mature," ING said.
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Cash-strapped Morocco continues to be exposed to the performance of the euro zone - its main trading partner and source of tourism and migrant remittances.
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Maduro's government has sought to oblige Venezuelans to exchange their remittances at the official exchange rate, partly in order to tame inflation, the world's highest.
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Highly reliant on foreign remittances, Gambians have also accounted for a large number of the refugees traveling across the Mediterranean in an attempt to reach Europe.
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Ezzedine Saidan, a local economist, said boosting reserves through loans - rather than exports, remittances or tourism revenues - was problematic as it would only increase Tunisia's debt.
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According to Mexico's central bank, remittances from Mexican workers in other countries — who are overwhelmingly located in the United States — totaled $22006,770 billion dollars in 2015.
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According to Mexico's central bank, remittances from Mexican workers in other countries — who are overwhelmingly located in the United States — totaled $19803,770 billion dollars in 2015.
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Strong and relatively stable foreign-currency revenue from remittances and garments exports, two main pillars of Bangladesh's economy, support the external balances and overall credit profile.
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Nara Bahadur Thapa, an official at the central bank, said Nepal received 70 billion rupees ($640 million) in remittances from migrant workers in India every year.
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Remittances are a huge business, with $582 billion transferred in 2015 and $432 billion of that sent specifically to emerging markets, according to the World Bank.
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Research from Mexico and the Philippines has shown that remittances not only help households cover costs, they spur investment in microenterprises and help reduce child labor.
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But a handful of charities are also now using digital currencies to send relief directly to those in need, circumventing banks and companies that handle remittances.
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It is there that many of the immigrants live in cramped quarters for little money to be able to send remittances to their families in China.
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The remittances, mostly coming from U.S.-based Mexican workers, rose to $9.403 billion in the second quarter, from $7.852 billion in the January to March period.
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BEIJING, Dec 9 (Reuters) - China will not limit overseas remittances of foreign firms' "normal profits", the foreign exchange regulator said on its offical microblog on Friday.
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It's the first time remittances were the most important source of revenue for Mexico since 1995, when the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) started tracking the figure.
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The Financial Stability Board (FSB) said there has been a clear, downward trend in correspondent banking, raising concerns about remittances, a staple of some poorer economies.
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That puts the tech giant on course to compete with a slew of money transfer firms looking to tap into the multi-billion dollar remittances market.
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As many as 400,000 Lebanese work in the Gulf, sending home a big share of the remittances that make up about 14% of their homeland's GDP.
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On July 10, Nigerian lawmakers voted to investigate the state oil firm, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, over a shortfall in revenue remittances to government coffers.
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Yet one corner of this industry remains trapped in a dusty time warp: remittances, or the practice of foreign workers sending money to relatives back home.
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WorldRemit founder and CEO Ismail Ahmed took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London to talk about his company and his views on the future of remittances.
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A 'Pay for the Wall' memo Trump's team issued in early 2016 proposed pressuring Mexico by cutting off remittances from undocumented Mexicans in the United States.
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Remittances from Moroccans living abroad dropped 3.4% to 25.8 billion dirhams, while foreign direct investment fell by 16.7% to 8.1 billion dirhams during the same period.
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Remittances start-up WorldRemit has raised $45 million in debt to help it tap the business of using mobile wallets to send money across emerging markets.
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COLOMBO, July 20 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee ended slightly firmer on Friday as remittances boosted dollar inflows, helping offset the importer dollar demand, traders said.
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Since GDP is a measure of domestic production, it only captures declines in remittances to the extent that recipients spend less on local goods or services.
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Cutting off personal remittances could have severe consequences in a country like Jamaica, where they made up 16.3 pct of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014.
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Honduras received $4.3 billion in remittances in 2017, according to World Bank data, a sum equivalent to nearly 19 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
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Those men and women send back a large chunk of Mexico's foreign exchange earnings, contributing more than $20 billion in remittances wired this year through September.
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Still, the uncertainty has also helped locals in an unexpected way: the Mexican peso's value plunges every time Trump advances, making the dollar remittances stretch further.
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"Remittances are a symptom, but (they) ... can be used to have a long-term positive effect in the economies where these funds are going," he said.
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Many older members of the diaspora still support Mr. Isaias, and through vast remittances and impassioned community organizing abroad, they offer essential support to his regime.
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While oil producers are working to diversify their economies, importers have also been hit by falling revenue from remittances, aid, investment and tourism from Gulf states.
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COLOMBO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee traded steady on Friday as dollar sales by banks from inward remittances offset importer dollar demand, dealers said.
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COLOMBO, June 9 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee ended steady on Friday in tepid trade as mild inward remittances offset dollar demand from importers, dealers said.
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The United States has been vital to The Philippines' economy for a century as a source of investment and remittances as well as a trading partner.
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It's created fifty-three million very poor people for whom the only solution is to emigrate, en masse, to the United States and send remittances home.
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Mexicans received $2.5 billion in the cash transfers, known as remittances, in March compared to $2.2 billion a year earlier, according to Mexico's central bank, Banxico.
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Kyrgyzstan's economy depends heavily on remittances from migrant labourers, most of whom work in Russia, with which the Bishkek government maintains close economic and political ties.
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"The month-end inward remittances were there, but the rupee ended weaker on mild importer (dollar) demand," a currency dealer said, asking not to be named.
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The company has partnered with Visa to provide faster, direct-to-debit card payments in the US. The initial roll out targeted US to Mexico remittances.
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A cheaper Egyptian pound may encourage more Egyptians working overseas to send money home, but remittances - which totaled $212 billion - have changed little over the years.
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Lagarde said such countries are especially vulnerable, often depend on remittances from workers abroad, and have minimal access to financial services under the best of circumstances.
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These lucrative activities would immediately expand the reach of Libra far beyond simple peer-to-peer payments or remittances into every corner of the financial market.
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Over the years, men from Waziristan and other tribal areas like my father sent home remittances and nourished dreams of a better life for their children.
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"In some years, remittances constitute two or three times the country's public social spending," the Migration Policy Institute, a research group in Washington, said last year.
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But Ms. Fishkin said the team had grown to include scholars and researchers in China as well, where many workers sent remittances to support loved ones.
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Western economic experts say floating the nafka currency would help scrub out the black market in a nation that relies heavily on remittances from Eritreans abroad.
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Its enormous diaspora in the United States sends billions of dollars a year back to El Salvador in remittances, helping to prop up the Salvadoran economy.
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Sales of coal, minerals and seafood in addition to remittances not only prop up the fledgling economy, they are also suspected of supporting the nuclear program.
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"The import demand has dried up, very little demand; it's the inward remittances and exporter conversions we can see in the market," said a currency dealer.
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Forget the facts and figures of how the president-elect hopes to use tariffs, fees, remittances, and whatever leverage he frankly can to recoup the money.
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They sent $79 billion (61.6 billion pounds) in remittances to India in 173, the most of any country in the world, according to World Bank data.
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As Monica de Bolle of the Peterson Institute for International Economics notes, it might also reduce remittances, hitting consumption in Mexico and thus, probably, American exports.
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According to the Inter-American Dialogue's research, remittances account for 17 percent of the country's gross domestic product and a staggering 80 percent of economic growth.
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Add to this the fathers who immigrate to the United States for work without their families and become nonresidential fathers in order to send needed remittances home.
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Jimenez said more than half of Send's Venezuelan users are located inside the country, and the rest are migrants in other countries sending remittances back to Venezuela.
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"Stablecoins can start to enable more frictionless remittances in the way people were promising when Bitcoin came out 10 years ago that really didn't materialize," he said.
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On the campaign trail, Trump said he'd change the Patriot Act and cut off a portion of remittances to Mexico unless the country agreed to pony up.
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"If we create the right conditions foreign investors will come back in a big way," he says, pointing to healthy returns on diaspora remittances and Eurobond sales.
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Steady garment exports and remittances from Bangladesh nationals working overseas, the key drivers of a more than $200 billion economy, have helped build reserves in recent years.
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Along with remittances from overseas workers, BPO revenues are a major earner of foreign exchange for the country, driving what is one of Asia's fastest-growing economies.
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They go on to argue in some detail that using this regulatory mechanism would likely impede a lot of legitimate commerce while doing little to reduce remittances.
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The widening resulted from slower growth in remittances, the rise in global oil prices and imports associated with infrastructure projects in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
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Second is the munificent flow of remittances from millions of expat V4 citizens who now live and work in the EU, especially in Germany, Austria or Britain.
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The Palestinian economy depends on the earnings of workers in Israel and the settlements, customs remittances from Israel and donations from the West and the Arab world.
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Excluding China, remittances to low and middle-income countries ($219 billion) were significantly larger than foreign direct investment in 220 ($103 billion), according to the World Bank.
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It could be of particular value to the poor, who could accept payments, pay bills, or make remittances more cheaply and without need of a bank account.
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The one big exception was Mexican immigrants in the United States — their remittances in 333 were almost 10 percent lower than the amount they sent in 22014.
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A slowdown in remittances from Filipinos working overseas, which have historically been a big driver of growth in the Southeast Asian nation, is a cause of concern.
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Remittances to Mexico totaled $26.97 billion in 2016, up nearly 9 percent from 2015, and the highest ever according to Mexican central bank figures dating to 1995.
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The dinar EURRSD= gained around 0.5 percent versus the euro over past 30 days on lending, demand and euro remittances from over a million Serbs working abroad.
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Even age counts—crooks who move money disproportionately steal the identities of old people and young adults, says Michael Kent, chief executive of Azimo, a remittances firm.
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The bombing and the Russian suspension were blows to Egypt's tourism industry, a key source of hard currency alongside remittances from Egyptians abroad and Suez Canal revenues.
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Residents of the capital, Harare, now wait outside banks for hours to withdraw a maximum of around $30 in surrogate money or collect remittances from relatives abroad.
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The Germans are thinking about how trade and aid may be used as diplomatic leverage and a source of jobs, particularly with countries that rely on remittances.
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Many Mexicans still fear Trump could cut off a portion of their income, if he imposes taxes on remittances as a form of payment for the wall.
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COLOMBO, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee ended firmer on Friday as inward remittances and exporter dollar sales surpassed mild dollar demand from importers, dealers said.
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India is also the largest destination for global remittances, with $69 billion in transfers sent into the country during 2017, according to data from the World Bank.
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Purchasing power has dropped by more than 10%, says the World Bank, once the direct impacts of remittances and declining terms of trade are taken into account.
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In 2009, the Obama administration began relaxing the U.S. isolation of Cuba, ending the limitations on visits by Cuban-Americans and on financial remittances to their families.
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While losing $10 billion in remittances would have a limited impact on Mexico's $1.3 trillion economy, the full price of Trump's immigration plan could be much higher.
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The main system there is on a network run by Dahabshiil, a firm that started as a remittances business and bank rather than as a telecoms provider.
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The total amount of remittances, which is estimated to reach $450 billion in 2017, has risen by more than 50 percent in the past decade, IFAD said.
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The rupee has been under pressure due to increased seasonal imports ahead of the new year, although dealers expect the pressure to ease with seasonal inward remittances.
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Chinamasa said the country was facing "a number of headwinds", including a lack of investment flows and remittances from Zimbabweans overseas, both of which fell this year.
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They belong either to migrants working in the United States who financed their construction with remittances, or to the increasingly wealthy smugglers who helped get them there.
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World Bank figures show that Mexico received $24 billion in remittances from the United States in 2015, more than the country received in tourism or oil revenue.
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This could be troubling for Western Union, who has doubled its presence in Mexico, and MoneyGram, who has partnered with Walmart to make these remittances more convenient.
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The Middle East is the second largest source of remittances, with more than one million Filipino workers sending home $7.6 billion in last year, government data showed.
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Imports and exports with the private sector — a still sizable market despite Maduro's socialist policies — will continue to flow freely, as will remittances from Venezuelans living abroad.
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Steady garment exports and remittances from Bangladeshis working overseas, the key drivers of the country's more than $200 billion economy, have helped build reserves in recent years.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has refused to accept the partial tax remittances from Israel, saying the PA is entitled to all the money under interim peace deals.
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Global remittances — which include money sent to developed markets like the U.S. — actually contracted by 1.7 percent to $581.6 billion in 2015, from $592 billion in 2014.
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"Analysing the situation in the economy, I feel that demand for dollars has declined due to a decline in remittances and a decline in imports," Saroyan said.
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"Exports could be one of the real solutions for the whole Egyptian economy, securing foreign exchange and overcoming shortages in foreign investment, tourism and remittances," he said.
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"This government is ruining all of us," said Leidi Chebariega, 67, through tears as she crossed into Colombia to receive remittances sent by her children in Canada.
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Many families here depend on the remittances sent to them by relatives who have migrated north to buy medicine for the old and schoolbooks for the young.
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Hondurans working in the United States under protected status account for 12 to 15 percent of remittances sent to the country, money typically sent to help relatives.
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Remittances have risen this year, up 4.5 percent between January and May from the year-earlier period to $11.35 billion, according to data from the central bank.
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But hopes Mubarak might follow through with wider reforms quickly fizzled out, leaving Egypt's $300 billion economy dangerously reliant on remittances and Suez Canal and tourism receipts.
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The transformation also brought some relief to the millions of Venezuelans who have family abroad and can now receive, and spend, their dollar remittances on imported food.
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Remittances make up thirty-six per cent of the state's G.D.P. 8 Inside the state-owned Tourism Development & Investment Company offices on Saadiyat Island, in Abu Dhabi.
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Even if they are able to find work and send remittances to their families, their departure can also put a strain on already overburdened families back home.
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However, Patrick Buchan, at Washington think tank Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said Chuuk&aposs dependence on remittances from the US made breaking from COFA unlikely.
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They expect the pressure to ease when seasonal inward remittances begin and on expected inflows, including the $200 million after the swap agreement with China Development Bank.
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There is little foreign investment in the country, gripped by its worst economic crisis in a decade, and export earnings and remittances from the diaspora have fallen.
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A 6900 study by the Inter-American Development Bank concluded that remittances sent to Mexico provided nearly 2628 percent of income for the country's poorest rural communities.
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The remittances many of them send home are worth more than $15 billion (by World Bank figures for 2015); that is nearly 8 percent of Bangladesh's economy.
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Remittances by diasporic Kenyans have soared in recent years, driven by increased flows from the United States and Canada, and become a central peg of the economy.
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These incentives take aim at the sheer spending power of Viet Kieu—in 2015, the World Bank found that remittances from overseas Vietnamese totaled about $13.2 billion.
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Haitian officials argue it still hasn't recovered enough to absorb 22015,225 people — and forego the billion-plus dollars in remittances that Haitians in the US send home.
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In the fiscal year that ends this month, recorded remittances will have fallen for the second consecutive year, this time by more than 10%, to $12bn (see chart).
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Oil prices had dropped drastically from $100 to $30 and a climate of uncertainty prevailed in Argentina, which had currency controls and a ban on remittances, he said.
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That was due mainly to an inflow of euro remittances from over a million Serbs working in the EU, as well as strong demand and low market liquidity.
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Venezuelans use cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin as currency, for person-to-person trading, and for remittances (transfers or payments from outside the country) to exchange into bolivars and dollars.
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The prospect of further falls in remittances is a hindrance for the Reserve Bank of India, as it seeks to "bullet-proof" the economy against sudden capital outflows.
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Most of the remittances were in small amounts below the reporting threshold, the official said, and repeatedly went to the same accounts in mainland China and Hong Kong.
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"The fuss the authorities are making over the remittances means that they are recognizing that we don't have other [growing] sources of foreign currency," he told VICE News.
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A wall built on the cheap for $5 billion to $83 billion, paid for by the Mexican government, because if they don't pay up, we will block remittances.
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Saudi Arabia has resumed issuing visas to migrant workers from Bangladesh, who send home $3bn a year in remittances, almost on a par with Bangladesh's total foreign aid.
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While in Washington Abiy was also scheduled to meet with members of Ethiopia's large diaspora community in the United States, whose remittances have helped prop up the economy.
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The weak peso has already pushed up the inflation rate (though it has also boosted the buying power of dollar remittances from Mexicans living in the United States).
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But remittances from the US to Mexico are actually a lot smaller than they were a decade ago: In 220, for instance, Mexican immigrants sent home $21 billion.
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Remittances, which Trump calls "welfare," are actually an economic engine that dwarfs what a government program can do — and isn't as easy to shut off as Trump thinks.
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"Unsurprisingly, a weaker global environment has knock-on effects on the region through a variety of channels - trade, remittances, capital flows, commodity prices, and financing conditions," she said.
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Remittances from Salvadoreans living in the United States account for a colossal 2195% of GDP; those from people with TPS send over an equivalent of 153% of GDP.
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That means the hitherto stable economy, which is expanding at seven percent, will eventually have to wean itself off its dependence on remittances and find new growth drivers.
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In the long run the answer to the remittances puzzle is a shift away from expensive cash-based systems and a bypassing of banks and transfer firms altogether.
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"Unsurprisingly, a weaker global environment has knock-on effects on the region through a variety of channels — trade, remittances, capital flows, commodity prices, and financing conditions," she said.
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These fellows could also be connected to the growing number of African immigrants to the U.S., who through remittances constitute an important aspect of the many African economies.
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Dealers see the rupee being under pressure till seasonal inward remittances begin and on expected inflows, including the $200 million after the swap agreement with China Development Bank.
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During his campaign, he suggested he would issue new regulations to stem the annual $24 billion flow of remittances sent by immigrants unless Mexico agreed to finance construction.
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COLOMBO, Aug 7 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee ended marginally weaker on Tuesday as demand for the U.S. dollar from foreign banks surpassed mild inward remittances, traders said.
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COLOMBO, Oct 2147.6000 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee traded weaker on Monday due to importer dollar demand, but the month-end inward remittances capped the fall, dealers said.
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However, likely tepid Russian growth is not expected to lift investment or the employment of expatriates whose remittances are a key source of revenue to some near neighbours.
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Airbnb has already paid out more than $40 million in tax remittances, including in places where agreements are not in place, according to figures provided by the company.
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One hypothesis is that Raúl can afford to move more slowly because of the injection of dollars from Mr Obama's loosening of restrictions on tourism, remittances and investment.
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But now Xoom has overtaken Remitly and TransferWise in this area and closed the gap between itself and WorldRemit, which boasts over 50 markets that can send remittances.
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The group said it was set to deliver continued high levels of cash remittances, which are expected to be in excess of $11.5 billion over the three years.
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The United States would have to return to a kind of Middle Ages to prohibit remittances or charge tariffs that aren't charged in other parts of the world.
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COLOMBO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee closed higher on Friday as late exporter dollar conversions and remittances surpassed demand from importers for the greenback, dealers said.
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Countries like India and Egypt that send many laborers to Persian Gulf countries saw their remittances dip last year because of falling oil prices, the World Bank found.
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Remittances home from Filipinos and Indonesians working abroad in 2015 was more than $45 billion (S$53 billion), a sizable chunk of both countries' GDP, the report said.
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"There are $24 billion that are transferred to Mexico through these remittances, and he says he's going to get $5 or $6 billion, whatever is necessary," he said.
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COLOMBO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee ended weaker on Monday due to mild importer dollar demand, but month-end inward remittances capped the fall, dealers said.
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Fitch expects domestic economic activity and loan demand to remain well-supported in the near term, backed by broadly steady overseas remittances and strong consumer and business sentiment.
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"We didn't see much of activity and the (inward) remittances were also very low, though there were some import demand," said a currency dealer on condition of anonymity.
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Weak oil prices and other economic declines have recently resulted in the smallest growth in remittances since the global financial crisis of 2007, according to the World Bank.
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COLOMBO, June 26 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee ended firmer on Tuesday as exporter dollar selling and inward remittances surpassed demand for the greenback from importers, dealers said.
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India's City Union Bank Ltd reported in February that it had suffered three "fraudulent remittances" of nearly $2 million that had been pushed through the SWIFT financial platform.
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For a time, the local economy was kept afloat by jobs related to uranium mining, remittances from Nigeriens working in Libya, and later by the fledgling gold economy.
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The spread of the coronavirus outside Egypt could have other knock-on effects on the economy, including on Egyptians working abroad, an important source of foreign currency remittances.
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The dinar EURRSD=, bolstered by remittances from Serbs living in the European Union, investments and purchases of euro-denominated treasury bonds, remained strong against the euro since April.
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In 193, according to a recent World Bank report, immigrants sent more than $430 billion in remittances to developing countries — three times the total global aid to them.
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Use cases include "powering mobile and online work, enabling faster and affordable remittances, reducing the operational complexities of delivering humanitarian aid, facilitating payments, and enabling microlending" says Kimble.
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One man I know, whose remittances were used to set up a T-shirt factory that employs his 10 children in his village, is heading home for good.
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Proposed changes to Mexico's pension system were praised by ratings agency Fitch, and millions of poor families could benefit from a government push to cut fees on remittances.
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Does the number include the costs of hiring scores of forensic auditors to determine which remittances to Mexico come from U.S. citizens and which come from undocumented workers?
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Businesses in need of foreign currency and foreign workers in Kurdistan, whose pay and remittances are usually in dollars, will be the most affected by the new measures.
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COLOMBO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee ended slightly firmer on Monday as inward remittances surpassed early demand for the U.S. dollar from foreign banks, traders said.
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An ever growing number of Venezuelans receive remittances, given around one tenth of the population of 30 million has emigrated in recent years due to an economic collapse.
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Ebix's ItzCash exchange is a recognized leader in prepaid cards, domestic remittances and bill payments, processing approximately 600,000 transactions per day and approximately $2 Billion in annual payment volume.
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Having covered 50 percent of India's trade deficit in the previous two years, remittances only covered 40 percent in 2015/16 even though the trade gap had shrunk significantly.
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Foreign investors have dipped in and out of Indian shares and bonds in the past two quarters, and a weakening global economy is raising concerns about exports and remittances.
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So it's likely a tax would end up applying to anyone who sends remittances -- something critics say would unfairly punish Americans and immigrants who came to the country legally.
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COLOMBO, March 2155.9500 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee closed slightly stronger on Tuesday as exporter dollar sales and inward remittances surpassed importer demand for the U.S. currency, dealers said.
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Meanwhile, his government is benefiting from migrant remittances that are helping to prop up Venezuela's economy and keep a lid on unrest in the nation of about 30 million.
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The Attorney General's Department, when asked if risks have risen over the past year, told Reuters AUSTRAC will continue to monitor the impact of bank de-risking on remittances.
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Three large ones told Reuters they've set up a holding company under a new name in order to open a bank account without identifying their core business of remittances.
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The deportation is a new and unwelcome development for Bangladesh, which is heavily dependent on remittances from hundreds of thousands of contract workers in Malaysia, Singapore and other countries.
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Remittances from thousands of émigrés in Belgium have poured into handsome houses, and businesses depend on those who return for holidays: Siemiatycze, beams Mr Siniakowicz, boasts 50 hair salons.
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When the Canadian dollar was riding high in the commodities boom, Mexicans passed straight through the United States to our giant northern neighbor and sent their remittances from there.
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But the plan Trump released this week on how he'd get Mexico to pay for the wall along the southern border of the US hinged on something called remittances.
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This year marks a major milestone in terms of the cash flowing to low- and middle-income countries: Remittances are now significantly larger than any other source of funds.
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The big picture: Remittances generally arrive in small chunks, maybe a couple of hundred dollars at a time, but there are a lot of them, and they add up.
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The rupee hit a fresh low of 158.80 per dollar on Friday owing to dollar demand from foreign banks and importers, but ended steady on late inflows from remittances.
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GDP is expected to grow by 2115% this year, helped by a 213% jump in remittances from Hondurans abroad, bigger harvests of shrimp and coffee, and higher banana prices.
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A huge trade deficit, lack of foreign investment and support from international lenders, as well as a fall in remittances by Zimbabweans abroad have helped fuel foreign currency shortages.
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Back in late 2018, Bloomberg reported Project Libra was intended to work with WhatsApp, which is popular in emerging economies like India—which also leads the world in remittances.
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The dinar EURRSD=, bolstered by remittances from Serbs living in the European Union, investments and purchases of euro-denominated treasury bonds, has been strong against the euro since April.
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WorldRemit has recently partnered with African mobile telecoms company MTN Group so users of the remittances service can send money to MTN mobile wallets in Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia.
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COLOMBO, March 27 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee ended stronger on Wednesday on banks' dollar sales from inward remittances ahead of the traditional new year celebrations, market sources said.
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The current account deficit should be covered by receipts from the business process outsourcing sector, remittances from Filipinos working and living abroad and strong foreign direct investments, Dakila said.
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If a laborer or domestic helper moves to a foreign country, Coins assists them in sending remittances more cheaply, efficiently, and quickly than conventional channels like money transfer operators.
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And many struggling families could be hit if Trump blocks remittances from migrant workers there, which totaled $27 billion last year to Mexico alone, according to bank BBVA Bancomer.
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Reuters interviewed six Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong who said it would take time to get their families to trust receiving remittances via their mobile phones.
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Alibaba and Tencent face plenty of competition in remittances, not to mention the long list of technology and financial services companies that aim to compete more broadly in payments.
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Limits To Growth, for example, describes remittances as money "strip-mined from the United States by foreign workers" that could have been used for productive investment in this country.
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Sudhir Kumar Shetty, president of UAE Exchange, which has eight branches in Qatar, said his firm was continuing to handle remittances and currency buying as usual in that country.
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