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IMF: Central Asia's revenues from migrant workers' remittances to increase by ...
Caspionet
The growth of remittances from migrant workers to the Central Asian countries is projected at 13% in 2012, according to CA-NEWS citing the report of the International Monetary Fund. According to the IMF forecast, Kazakhstan's economic growth will be at ...

Published on Friday, 04 May 2012 Written by Eli Keene
Times of Central Asia (subscription)
What may be the strongest argument for Kyrgyzstan to pursue membership in the Customs Union has very little to do with the country's domestic economy. Seventeen percent of Kyrgyzstan's GDP in 2009 was drawn from remittances from Kyrgyz migrant laborers ...

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Supporting multigenerational households affected by migration in Kyrgyzstan
HelpAge International (blog)
Sometimes remittances from those working abroad don't find their way back to the villages or aren't enough to support the grandchildren left behind. Older people have to go back to work if they can or, if they receive a pension, they use it to feed ...

Chinese firm strikes oil in Kyrgyzstan
Business Recorder (blog)
A single gold mine, owned by Canada's Centerra Gold, contributed nearly 12 percent of Kyrgyzstan's gross domestic product last year, and the economy also depends heavily on remittances from hundreds of thousands of migrant workers.

Kyrgyzstan's economic growth predicted to be the lowest in Central Asia in ...
Times of Central Asia (subscription)
Despite a slight increase in unemployment, retail sales increased due to growth in remittances (according to the Kyrgyz National Statistics Committee the remittances total $1.4 billion, or 25% of GDP) due to increasing number of labor migrants leaving ...

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