Sentence examples for total remittances from inspiring English sources
Last year, total remittances sent worldwide totaled more than $500 billion, according to Manuel Orozco, an expert at the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington research group.
Total remittances from diaspora communities, furthermore, dwarf international aid.
Total remittances to Mexico in 2014, according to the World Bank, were $25bn, with most of that coming from the US.
In 2011 remittances to poor countries totalled $372 billion, according to the World Bank (total remittances, including to the rich world, came to $501 billion).
They spread wealth from rich to poor countries, but now remittances are being squeezed.In November the World Bank suggested that total remittances to poor countries last year would be at least $283 billion.
As a share of total remittances these Saudi-based workers accounted for a similar share of their national figures: 29% or 28%, for Bangladesh and Pakistan respectively.The equilibrium has shifted however.
The total remittance transfers sent across the globe from the United States in recent years are almost $50 billion annually, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, or roughly the equivalent of the government's foreign aid budget.
While in 2000, the total remittance was less than $2.2 billion, it exceeded $5.4 billion by 2006.
Total global remittances from workers to their families will reach $318 billion in 2007, up from $170 billion in 2002.
And that is one of the more minor problems facing thousands of poor families in a country where the estimated annual total of remittances – $1.3bn£0.8bnbn) – is more than all foreign aid and investment in Somalia combined, according to a study published earlier this year by Adeso, Oxfam and the Inter-American Dialogue.
It permits complete foreign ownership of Iraqi companies and assets (apart from natural resources) that have hitherto been publicly owned, total overseas remittance of profits and some of the lowest corporate tax rates in the world.
