Posts - Research Blogging Regator - Curated Blog Search and Discovery Icerocket blog search Immigrants Are Sending More Money Back To Less Poor Countries More and more people are sending money from places like the United States to places like the Dominican Republic, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center. Last month, my blog mate Kat Chow wrote about a New Jersey lottery winner named Pedro Quezada who sent a staggering $57 million of his winnings back to the Dominican Republic, where his family lives. Let's ignore the sheer dollar amount for a second to look at the larger global trend that Quezada represents: the growing amount of money flowing from high-income nations to what the World Bank classifies as "middle-income" nations. Seventy percent of all "remittances" — the money that migrants send back to their countries of origin — goes to middle-income nations like the Dominican Republic, India and Mexico, according to a newly released Pew study that crunched numbers from the World Bank. Those immigrants are also heading to new destinations. Copyright 2014 NPR.
Plazoo Blogging Fusion - Blog Directory - Web Blog Directory - RSS Directory Does Facebook Represent the Future of International Remittances? Social networks such as Facebook and China’s RenRen reach increasingly large segments of the global population, with Facebook claiming over 1 billion active users and RenRen claiming 178 million. The popularity of social networking is not limited to developed countries, but extends to developing countries as well. In fact, in countries that receive the most international remittances, such as India (#1) and the Philippines (#3), Facebook is either the most frequently visited website or among the top three most visited. These social networks reach segments of the population who can often lag in financial inclusion: in the Philippines, more women than men access Facebook, for instance. In short, the potential is there, but there’s a lack of evidence that this model will be successful. For example, two existing services, Azimo and fastacash, are linking international remittances to Facebook.
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