13644: Chamberlain: re 13638: schuller - remittances (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>

> Mark Schuller wrote:
>
> I was having a conversation with some Haitian activists and we all had
very
> different ideas about how much $$$ the Haitian Diaspora sends via
remittances
> to their families in Haiti.
> Is such a statistic even available?  Also, has there been any analysis of
where
> exactly it's going?


The figure given in most recent statistics is $700 million a year.  I
haven't seen any breakdown of where and who it goes to and how it's used.


        Greg Chamberlain