Families across frontiers
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Many developing countries today receive more money from overseas workers than from foreign aid and investment. What is the social, economic, and political impact of this phenomenon?
Analysis: Backstreet bankers
Funds sent to Burma via ‘hondi’ brokers give those with relatives working abroad a degree of freedom from state control that can be crucial for survival
Analysis: The Senegal brotherhood
A vast overseas population has made a city of what was 50 years ago a village
Analysis: Building Latin American futures
Innovation is enabling migrants’ relatives to benefit from mortgages and financial services
Analysis: Cashing in on homeward flows
Western Union and its new competitors are capitalising on the burgeoning market for cash transfers by migrant workers
Analysis: Filipinos’ mixed blessings
As part of a series on remittances, David Pilling and Roel Landingin tell how the Philippines leans on its diaspora
Analysis: The tale of globalisation’s exiles
In many countries, more money comes from remittances than aid, investment or exports
Analysis: The ultimate shotgun wedding
Ethnic Albanians return home each summer with small fortunes to marry and impress the locals
Kosovo waiting for funds
International assistance worth €1bn was put on hold after a donor conference led by the EU and the World Bank was postponed indefinitely
US migrant laws hit cash sent to Mexico
Legal restrictions targeting illegal immigrants have contributed to a sharp fall-off in the remittances sent to Mexico from a number of US states, according to a new survey
Migration found to help girls left at home
Migration has a positive impact on girls’ education, healthcare and fertility rates in countries that export labour, according to a study by the World Bank published in Cairo.
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