Wednesday, April 15, 2015

World Bank New Ideas for Remmitances

The World Bank has come with some new ideas for remittances coming into India, China, Philippines, Mexico, and Nigeria that is to build infrastructure. This idea come from seeing how much money those countries earn from citizens that working overseas. Sorting from the first of the list are $70bn, $64bn, and $28bn for Philippines. For total sum last year is $583bn on the official flow.
This money usually uses to send kids to school, wedding payment, buy a car, or build a house. However, The World Bank wants the money to be put in use for the beneficial of their country. They see the remittances can be used as potential resource for developing their country. For example, build a bullet train in India and international airport in Nigeria.

The remittances from overseas working citizen are seen as more stable than any other income in developing country. Even though the remittances are expected to grow slower this year, they are still estimated to rise at $586bn and will keep rise and come about $610bn in 2016 and $636bn in 2017, according to the World Bank.