For countries such as Armenia, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Moldova, Nepal, and Tajikistan, expatriates remit the equivalent of more than one-sixth of national income – an amount that often exceeds exports. And this money can do a lot of good, as the World Bank’s Dilip Ratha has highlighted.
一个重要的联系便是侨汇，每年全球侨汇总量高达5,000亿美元。侨汇的最大流入国是印度、墨西哥和菲律宾。对亚美尼亚、萨尔瓦多、海地、洪都拉斯、牙买加、吉尔吉斯斯坦、莱索托、摩尔多瓦、尼泊尔和塔吉克斯坦等国来说，侨民汇款相当于国民收入的六分之一强——常常比出口规模还要大。世界银行的狄丽普·拉塔（Dilip Ratha ）指出，这笔钱可以派上大用场。