The value of all ODA in 2006 was $126 billion, less than half the value of private remittances, even though it includes assistance from OECD and non-OECD countries, as well as from China. If the recession costs migrants their jobs in richer host countries and forces them to return home to their countries of origin, millions of already poor people will be thrown into greater poverty.
尽管经合组织及非经合组织国家的援助都包括在内，还有来自中国的援助，但2006年官方发展援助价值1260亿美元，还不到私人汇款的一半。如果经济萧条使移民在富裕国家失去工作，迫使他们返回原籍，那么数百万已经贫困的人会进一步陷入贫困的深渊。