Returns with remittances to the Receipts Clearing and Deposit Section and those without remittances go to the Returns Processing Branch.
Most Somalis couldn't survive without remittances from the Somali diaspora, and so an attack on Nairobi, say, would amount to a form of political suicide for the Shabab's local leaders.
Haitian government officials said they were still trying to determine how much money was pouring in, but after two weeks without remittances because of the earthquake, there appeared to be a significant spike, which they welcomed.
Without remittances both household types show a rather similar expenditure behavior.
The percentages of children living in migrant households without remittances are 10.27% and 11.22%, respectively, in Moldova and Georgia.
In Guatemala, Adams and Cuécuecha (2010) report that households receiving international remittances spend more on education and housing compared to what they would have spent without remittances.
The average annual expenditure of households who receive remittances significantly exceeds that of households without remittances (72,756 Mand and 54,025 MAD, respectively).
The relatively high proportion of children living in migrant households without remittances may reflect irregular remitting channels and the commonality of seasonal migration, which is less lucrative in terms of remittances.
From independent data sources, Ahlburg [ 45] and Brown and Connell [ 57] found that the distribution of household income with remittances was less skewed than the distribution without remittances.
Without his remittances, his family has been forced to take a £660 loan from a private lender charging 48% interest a year.
This latter figure, however, is somewhat overstated due to transfers to the Treasury from Fannie and Freddie, counted as reduced outlays, but not really fiscal drag in the sense of less spending on activities that would promote growth; still, even without those remittances, we'd be looking at an unusually austere year (I also had to estimate 2013q4 GDP since it's not out yet).
