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• Mexicans Send Money North To Relatives In U.S.

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 571
  We’ve all heard the story. An immigrant comes to America, finds work, and sends most of his wages back home to his family. However, by the fall of 2007, it was becoming clear something was changing. From the New York Times’ Elisabeth Malkin back on October 26, 2007: For years, millions of Mexican migrants ...
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• Mexico’s economy contracts 6.2 percent in third quarter

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Mexico City, Nov 22 (EFE) Mexico’s gross domestic product fell by 6.2 percent in the third quarter relative to the same period of 2008, beating analysts’ expectations, authorities said.Inegi statistics institute said Friday that, excluding seasonal factors, the country’s GDP rose 2.93 percent in the ...
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• OFW remittances soar to $12.8-B in 9 months

  
  Pinoy News and Blogosphere Buzz — Authority: 137
  MANILA – Remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) soared to $12.8 billion in the first nine months of the year, or from January to September.    
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• Do low-income mobile phone users want mobile money?

  
  CGAP Technology Blog — Authority: 122
  Since the official launch of GCASH in early 2004, Globe Telecom’s subsidiary GXI set-up a number of initiatives to help them arrive at a strategy for mobile banking in the Philippines. As part of those efforts, CGAP and GXI partnered to roll-out GCASH in three predominantly rural and low-income provinces of Bohol, ...
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• Obama interacts with Cuban blogger

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Havana, Nov 20 (EFE) US President Barack Omaba has assured Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez that Washington wants to see “increased respect for human rights and for political and economic freedoms” on the communist-ruled island, the blogger has said.In response to a written questionnaire Sanchez sent him, the US leader ...
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• Official launch of the ACP Migration Facility

  
  www.weitzenegger.de — Authority: 115
  http://www.acp.int/en/sg/migration09/acpmigration09_workshop.html The ACP Migration Facility aiming to support the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to better understand and manage the flow of migration within their borders, was officially launched on the 27th and 28th October in Brussels. This took place ...
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• The Recession and Reverse Remittances

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  I’ve discussed the negative effects of the current economic recession on human rights several times before on this blog. I’ve focused on the right not to suffer poverty , because that’s obviously one human right that is particularly affected by the recession, but I also mentioned other rights (see here , ...
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• Remittances reversed

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  "We send something whenever we have a little extra, at least enough so he can eat." Remittances, the small money transfers a previous FPP called "the most important antipoverty program in the world", are now flowing the opposite direction. Yes, poor families in southern Mexico are having scramble to find money to ...
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• Global Payments Sells Money Transfer Business

  
  Payments News - from Glenbrook Partners — Authority: 488
  Global Payments has announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its DolEx- and Europhil-branded money transfer businesses to an affiliate of Palladium Equity Partners, LLC. Under the terms of the agreement, Global Payments will receive proceeds in the range of $85 million to $110 million based on the ...
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• MasterCard Expands Utility of MoneySend Platform

  
  Payments News - from Glenbrook Partners — Authority: 488
  MasterCard has announced that starting in 2010, MasterCards financial institutions will have the capability to offer MasterCard cardholders money transfers from any MasterCard or Maestro card to any other MasterCard or Maestro card. According to MasterCard, "this global card-to-card money transfer service will expand ...
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• In Our Community: Immigration News

  
  Immigration: It's Our Community — Authority: 121
  Its been a busy week for immigration news! Grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and take a look at the news on immigration from Monday, November 9 to Monday, November 16. First, and most importantly, Secretary Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security announced on Friday that the Obama administration ...
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• Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Sirenia Avendano wept as she spoke of sending money to her sons in the United States.
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• £13 Billion per Year: What Immigration Costs the British Taxpayer

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 618
  Criminal immigrants held in British jails cost the taxpayer £283 million per year, new figures have revealed. This means that the annual total cost of immigration to the British taxpayer is now set at just over £13 billion per year. According to official figures revealed in Parliament, the bill for keeping foreign ...
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• Signs of Recovery in Some Sectors The Economy

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
                                Signs of gradual revival of the economy                                                                               By Mohammed Arifeen The State Bank of Pakistan has ...
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• La Liga Global: Asserting Migrant Economic Power

  
  RaceWire — Authority: 607
  The Obama administration made another pronouncement today about immigration reform being taken up in 2010. Apart from the valid critiques of whether or not proposed changes will truly constitute “comprehensive immigration reform,” there is a deeper question. What about the broader economic context of ...
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• I won’t have Lou Dobbs to kick around anymore

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 431
  Oh well. I’ve mentioned the guy a total of 23 times (24 counting this one) over the  lifespan of The Mex Files .  I guess his resignation (a thinly disguised firing) at CNN IS a victory for everyone who had sane views on immigration and human rights, but — as I got more than a little snarky about with ...
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• The Future of Wade Rathke and ACORN, Part I

  
  Big Government — Authority: 813
  People that know him, and know him well, have described him as an “organic genius” and a “diabolical genius”. He’s become a lightning rod and a polarizing figure, and he’s at the center of a national debate. Wade Rathke is the former long time CEO, or Chief Organizer, of ACORN, the Association for ...
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• Dhaka’s foreign exchange reserves cross $10 bn

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Dhaka, Nov 12 (IANS) Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves have crossed the $10 billion mark, the highest ever, an official said.The nine-fold increase in as many years is thanks to increasing remittances, a fall in global fuel prices and reduced rice imports.The country’s foreign currency reserve was $1.3 ...
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• Western Union, Wyclef Jean killing us softly with prepaid gift-card fees

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Company News , Economy , American Express Western Union ( WU ) is expanding into the business of prepaid debit and credit cards, and Wyclef Jean is selling them softly with his song and his star power. Jean, the Grammy-winning rapper and former Fugee, is helping the money-sending service launch a ...
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  MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. — Authority: 131
  
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