Companies like Coinalytics, which is building analytics and insight into what's happening on the bitcoin blockchain, or the Singaporean exchange CoinHako (one of the fastest in transaction processors in Asia) — or Palarin, a remittance company from the Philippines.
She received a pension, remittances from a son, and help from a grandson, but other children no longer contributed because they were unemployed or had their own households.
The quantitative data come from a remittance's beneficiary national survey and a household survey in the coffee region.
Although similar in volume, Mexico and the Philippines couldn't be more different from a remittance standpoint.
This decision is a result of PayPal failing to get a remittance license in the country from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Of the 3,178 receiving a remittance, 1,989 (47%) received funds from at least one internal source, 1,718 (41%) received funds from an external (outside Nepal) source and 529 received funds from both an internal and external source.
The crisis has caused a slowdown in economic growth, cuts in social spending, a reduction in remittances from abroad and a decline in job opportunities - all of these factors could reverse the gains made in health, education and child protection.
One day, Meera does not find the remittance from Shankar.
Villagers studying in town, a family relying on remittances from a son there, growing numbers who watch cable television and get phone calls from town, all help shape the opinions of rural friends and relatives.
Egypt also has a high level of government debt, and faces a sharp fall in remittances from an estimated 1m Egyptians working in Libya, many of whom are straggling home to swell the ranks of the unemployed.
