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In 2020, about 281 million people lived in a country other than the one in which they were born, and those migrants send home hundreds of billions of dollars annually in the form of remittances.
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The World Bank estimated the pandemic and recession would cut those flows by about 7% in 2020 and again by 7% by the end of 2021.
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A visualization of the $717 billion sent home by migrants in 2019, organized by sender and receiver countries.
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A visualization of the $717 billion sent home by migrants in 2019, organized by sender and receiver countries.
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The changes in flows of remittances reflect the geopolitical changes in the world, as seen here between 1990 and 2020.
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The changes in flows of remittances reflect the geopolitical changes in the world, as seen here between 1990 and 2020.
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Remittances are often vitally important to recipient countries, and in total have outpaced international development aid since the 1990s.
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World Bank data shows that there’s a big difference in cost between sending cash and sending remittances digitally.
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