Diaspora Remittances & Post C-19 Recovery
According to the World Bank, remittance flows to Sub Saharan African countries will drop by 23.1% from $48 billion in
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According to the World Bank, remittance flows to Sub Saharan African countries will drop by 23.1% from $48 billion in
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by Adva Saldinger 05 February 2015
Diaspora populations have long sent money back to their countries of origin in the form of remittances. Now, a new initiative led by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Calvert Foundation seeks to tap that capital and put it to work more strategically.
Source: Cfi.com
Envision the world economy as a complex, interconnected array of financial engines whose propulsion helps reinforce one another’s momentum. One of the component engines is a small but significant one that, until a few years ago, was not recognised for the powerful contribution it makes to the global financial system.
Date: 27 December 2014
Source: The Borneo Post
The Philippine central bank is allowing record Christmas remittances from overseas workers to give the peso shelter during a global selloff. The currency gained 0.9 per cent against the dollar this quarter in Asia’s best performance, after an unprecedented US$19.9 billion of remittances in the first 10 months.
Your are here » Home » Business News Diaspora remittances in relative increase, hit Sh10.2b in March Updated Wednesday, May 14th 2014 at 21:43 GMT +3 0 inShare By Nicholas Waitathu Kenya: Remittances from Kenyans in the Diaspora increased by 16 per cent to Sh10.2 billion ($119.6 million) in March compared to Sh8.8 billion the same period last year.
Read morePersonal remittances continued to rise in March, registering a 6.9-percent growth to $2.1 billion from a year ago due to robust remittance flows from both land and sea-based overseas Filipino workers, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported yesterday.
This brought the cumulative remittances for the first three months of the year to $6.085 billion.