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The "Arab spring" of 2011 made a dent in remittance receipts in the Middle East and Africa, as migrant workers from the region fled countries such as Libya.
Tajikistan is the country most dependent on remittances in the world.
Compare that to the $40bn that diaspora Africans sent home in remittances in 2010.
The World Bank estimates the total flow of remittances in the world is nearly $350bn£224bnbn) per year.
Entire villages in Poland and Greece survived off such homely remittances in the 1950's.
Remittances in hard currency funnelled through hawala (Islamic word-of-mouth banks) may have more to do with it.
Indians abroad sent home $49 billion, making the country the world's biggest recipient of remittances in 2009.
Lebanon, for instance, gathered $7.6 billion in remittances in 2009, just over 15% of the amount that India received.
Remittances in 2008 grew more slowly than in previous years, but there has been no overall drop.
Remittances in dirhams, the UAE's dollar-pegged currency, are worth less back home, particularly in India where the rupee is gaining strength.
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