20,000 soccer fans are expected in the Washington area this week to watch teams of Ethiopians from the United States and Canada compete. The annual tournament has become one of the largest gatherings of Ethiopians outside their homeland.
Last year, Latin Americans in Spain sent $5 billion in remittances to their home countries. That is almost as much as Latin America as a whole received in aid from the IMF, World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank combined.
remittances in Mexico: the fee for remitting money has dropped from an average of 9.2% in 1999 to 3% in January 2007. The northward exodus to America numbers about 500,000 people a year. remittances amounted to about $23 billion in 2006