World: Poor Increasingly Pay Own Way

from IPS News:

... the United Nations is predicting a dramatic increase in remittances of earning from migrant workers worldwide homeward.

Although numbers vary, both the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) estimate that migrant earnings sent home will soon rise to over 150 billion dollars annually.
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... in several countries, remittances are now the largest single source of foreign exchange, topping tea exports in Tajikistan, and amounting to over 30 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in Tonga.

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