Remittances – money sent home by migrants to family and friends – have soared to record levels. Explore the World Bank's latest estimates of how much money is sent, and where, and take a deeper look at the impact of remittances in Ghana, Liberia, Tajikistan and Bangladesh Migrants' ...
Remittances: how much money do migrants send home? – interactiveteam, Guardian InteractiveHarris, RichProvost, Claire
money, are going to use that money for a pension fund in the long term. But my sense is we need a start-up fund. We don’t need a pension fund. The dilemma for Ireland is that it has this income. I’ve always described Ireland as a bit like Connecticut with shitty weather, ...
There are concerns among financial intelligence units that remittances are one of the ways in which money can be laundered or violent activities like terrorism can be sponsored. The methodology countries use to record the amount of money people receive via remittances is rarely made public. While t...
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There are many ways to help refugees abroad. Whether you volunteer in a refugee camp or with refugees, asylees, and migrants in the community, a range of skills are in demand. Specialized skills: If you speak the population’s language fluently, there are often volunteer opportunities for tran...
But there are other major savings mistakes that can be a nightmare for your personal finances. And it’s these systemic mistakes that can result in money woes that will haunt you for years to come. 1. Fear of saving As that tried and true saying goes, “The only thing we have to fear...
Between now and 2050, the urban population of Africa could triple. Yet cities in sub-Saharan Africa are not getting richer the way cities in the rest of the world have. Most urban Africans live in slums (贫民窟); migrants are often not much better ...
He added that Brexit meant the UK leaving the Dublin Agreement, which previously allowed us to return migrants to the first EU country they passed through. "There's no hard data on that, but it may be why we've seen the rise we have, because people think they are saf...
Most urban Africans live in slums (贫民窟); migrants are often not much better off than they were in the countryside. Why?The immediate problem is poverty. Most of Africa is urbanising at a lower level of income than other regions of the world did. That means there's little money around...