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IRIN Analysis: Syria's forgotten refugees
Ya Libnan
His family depends on remittances – now affected by the devaluation of the Syrian currency – from family in Iraq to survive. UNHCR recently increased the food allowance from 1100 to 1500 pounds per person per month ($19 to $26); and intends to increase ...

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Syria's forgotten refugees
Middle East Online
His family depends on remittances - now affected by the devaluation of the Syrian currency - from family in Iraq to survive. UNHCR recently increased the food allowance from 1100 to 1500 pounds per person per month ($19 to $26); and intends to increase ...

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Saudi Arabia and the Egyptian 'no'
Al-Arabiya
This means that Egypt's economy is bigger than that of Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, and Libya together in terms of economic power. Egyptians will not be able to put this power into effect without establishing strong relations with economically powerful ...

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Net1 Reports Third Quarter 2012 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
In addition to payments, UEPS can be used for banking, healthcare management, payroll, remittances, voting and identification. Net1 operates market-leading payment processors in South Africa, Republic of Korea, Ghana and Iraq.

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US Official Remarks on Challenges Facing Region
AllAfrica.com
While Tunisia has charted impressive political progress, the government's ability to meet post-revolution socio-economic growth targets is strained by lost remittances, diminished production, and plummeting tourism and exports.

Labor Trafficking: Modern-Day Slave Trade - OpEd
Eurasia Review
With remittances totaling some $20 billion a year, the Philippines places fourth as a recipient of remittances, after China, India, and Mexico. The role of the Philippines as a labor exporter cannot be divorced from the dynamics of neoliberal ...

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ANALYSIS: Have Pakistan's generals overplayed their hand in Afghanistan ...
Pakistan Daily Times
But for workers' remittances from abroad, amounting to about $ 12 billion, Pakistan's internal and external finances would be precarious. With a burgeoning population, deteriorating law and order, little investment, Pakistan cannot afford continuation ...

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Pressure on BoP, higher inflation, political unrest threaten economy
Financial Express Bangladesh
"Worker remittances were 13.1 per cent higher in the quarter under review than in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal", it pointed out. Disbursement of foreign aid, the review noted, dropped by 6.7 per cent in the first seven months of FY12 ...

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Sri Lanka ships less tea, benefits from weak rupee in first quarter 2012
Lanka Business Online
Shipments to Iraq rose 16.0 percent to 5.3 million kilos this year. Sales to Turkey, fell 30.0 percent to 4.2 million kilos in the 2012 quarter. Shipments to Libya, more than doubled to 3.8 million kilos this year. However, lower export volumes were ...

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Labor Trafficking - Modern-Day Slave Trade
AllAfrica.com
With remittances totaling some $20 billion a year, the Philippines places fourth as a recipient of remittances, after China, India, and Mexico. The role of the Philippines as a labor exporter cannot be divorced from the dynamics of neoliberal ...

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