Remittances, a Vital Financial Lifeline, Are Being Squeezed

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Authored by Radmilla Suleymanova

Each year, migrant workers send money to 800 million family members. However, the pandemic is severely disrupting flows.

Location Global
Authored by Radmilla Suleymanova
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Remittance flows – the funds migrant workers send to their families back home – are projected to make their sharpest decline in history thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. And the disruption threatens to push millions of poor families deeper into poverty, the United Nations has warned in the run-up to the International Day of Family Remittances.