{"id":1470,"date":"2012-11-28T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2012-11-28T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T17:19:12","slug":"migrant-remittances-continue-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/28\/migrant-remittances-continue-to-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant Remittances Continue to Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1481\" style=\"width: 741px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/migrant-remittances-0.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1481\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1481 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/migrant-remittances-0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/migrant-remittances-0.png 731w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/migrant-remittances-0-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/migrant-remittances-0-500x300.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1482\" style=\"width: 933px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/migrant-remittances1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1482\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1482\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/migrant-remittances1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"923\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/migrant-remittances1.png 923w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/migrant-remittances1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/migrant-remittances1-500x280.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 923px) 100vw, 923px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Migrant remittances to developing countries are expected to reach $406 billion in 2012, a 6.5 percent increase over the previous year, and $534 billion in 2015. These officially recorded remittances have kept increasing despite high remittance costs and the financial crisis. This source of income for developing economies constitutes more than three times the size of Official Development Assistance (ODA).<\/p>\n<p>The highest recipients of\u00a0migrant remittances among developing economies for 2012 are India, China, the Philippines and Mexico. As a percentage of GDP, the highest recipients in 2011 were Tajikistan, Liberia, the Kyrgyz Republic and Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The World Bank &#8211; Migration and Development Brief:<em><a href=\"http:\/\/siteresources.worldbank.org\/INTPROSPECTS\/Resources\/334934-1288990760745\/MigrationDevelopmentBrief19.pdf\"> Remittances to developing countries will surpass $400 billion in 2012<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>IndexMundi &#8211; Time Series Comparison: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/facts\/indicators\/BX.TRF.PWKR.DT.GD.ZS\/compare#country=kg:ls:lr:tj\">Workers&#8217; remittances and compensation of employees, received (% of GDP)<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>IndexMundi &#8211; Time Series Comparison: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/facts\/indicators\/BX.TRF.PWKR.CD.DT\/compare#country=cn:in:mx:ph\">Workers&#8217; remittances and compensation of employees, received (current US$)<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Migrant Remittances Continue to Rise' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/28\/migrant-remittances-continue-to-rise\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Migrant Remittances Continue to Rise' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/28\/migrant-remittances-continue-to-rise\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Migrant Remittances Continue to Rise' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/28\/migrant-remittances-continue-to-rise\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Migrant Remittances Continue to Rise' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/28\/migrant-remittances-continue-to-rise\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migrant remittances to developing countries are expected to reach $406 billion in 2012, a 6.5 percent increase over the previous year, and $534 billion in 2015. These officially recorded remittances have kept increasing despite high remittance costs and the financial crisis. This source of income for developing economies constitutes more than three times the size [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Migrant Remittances Continue to Rise' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/28\/migrant-remittances-continue-to-rise\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Migrant Remittances Continue to Rise' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/28\/migrant-remittances-continue-to-rise\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Migrant Remittances Continue to Rise' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/28\/migrant-remittances-continue-to-rise\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Migrant Remittances Continue to Rise' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/28\/migrant-remittances-continue-to-rise\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,165,29,19,30],"tags":[1362,483,485,486,1363,482,481,1354,480,484,479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}