Quotes About Remittances

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.

To help advance democracy, we need to allow for the reunification of Cuban families and the direct sending of remittances to the island's brave dissidents.

The economy recovered to a great extent from the disasters of Bhutto's rule, but the boom of the 1980s under Zia proved as shallow as that under Musharraf – based above all on US aid and remittances from the Pakistani workers who flooded to the Gulf states in response to the oil boom.

The problem is, the Cuban government wants it both ways. They want to be able to blame the United States for their failed system of government, and then when remittances are sent over by Miamians... they take the dollars, they turn them into a worthless currency, and then they force Cubans to pay for things in their stores, in dollars.

Increased remittances to Cuba from the United States has helped Cuban families.

We have the ability to shut down the flow of remittances to Mexico from illegal aliens working in the United States.

Migrants are the creators of some of the biggest and most liquid capital flows anywhere. They send back some $600 billion in remittances every year,6 which amounts to three times more than the direct gains from abolishing all trade barriers, four times more than all foreign aid, and 100 times the amount of all debt relief.

The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.

Being able to save, make non-cash payments, send or receive remittances, get credit, or get insurance can be instrumental in raising living standards and helping businesses prosper. It helps people to invest more in education or health care.

Airtime remittances use mobile minutes as a pseudo-currency that can be transferred between phones and exchanged for goods.

De hecho, para muchos países, las remesas se han convertido en la mayor fuente de dinero e incluso en el mayor sector de la economía, de tal forma que han transformado las estructuras económicas y sociales tradicionales, así como el panorama empresarial.