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.
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.
Pakistani coffers depend heavily on foreign remittances: at the end of this fiscal year, Pakistan will have received a record $13.5 billion in remittances, a 21 percent increase over last year's $11.2 billion.
In 1998, 20.3percentt of poor households received remittances and these remittances accounted for 4.9percentt of total per capita consumption and 6.3percentt of total per capita daily income.
Some 45percentt of people polled by the bank said they received their remittances from a bank or other credit institution, compared with only 7percentt in Guatemala and 17percentt in Ecuador.
The Pakistani economy receives an enormous boost from remittances sent home from Pakistanis working abroad, which are expected to amount to $4 billion this year, he said.
These are: the proportion of households that received remittances in a given municipality in 2000, and the number of people aged under 15 per 1000 habitants in a given municipality.
Further, the poorest 40% received remittances for an average period of 4.4 years, while the wealthiest 20% received them for almost seven years.
We see that 7.5% of individuals between 12 and 17 reside in a remittance receiving household, meaning that over 130 thousand secondary school-aged children receive income from abroad.
The most blatant case was an account holder in Mexico who received "1,400 remittances from 950 senders in 40 states.
