{"id":142960,"date":"2020-06-18T08:55:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T12:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=142960"},"modified":"2020-06-18T10:38:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T14:38:06","slug":"remittances-decline-in-march-and-april-but-rebound-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/06\/18\/remittances-decline-in-march-and-april-but-rebound-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Remittances decline in March and April but rebound in May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/US-Dollars-Pexels-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-121630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/US-Dollars-Pexels.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/US-Dollars-Pexels-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/US-Dollars-Pexels-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic reports that in May 2020 remittances from Dominicans living abroad were already picking up after a record low in April 2020, during the local peak of the Covid-19 epidemic. As reported, May 2020 remittances were US$638.7 million, up 17% compared to May 2019. The Central Bank explains that the rise is due to the partial reopening of the Spanish and US economies, from where 85% of the remittances come from. In April 2020, there was a decline in remittances of 32%, or some US$190.2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first five months of the year, remittances were US$2.7 billion, some US$133.3 million less, or 4.6% decline, compared to those that entered for the same period in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bancentral.gov.do\/a\/d\/4858-las-remesas-de-dominicanos-en-el-extranjero-crecieron-179-en-mayo\">Central Bank <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 June 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic reports that in May 2020 remittances from Dominicans living abroad were already picking up after a record low in April 2020, during the local peak of the Covid-19 epidemic. As reported, May 2020 remittances were US$638.7 million, up 17% compared to May 2019. The Central Bank explains that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/06\/18\/remittances-decline-in-march-and-april-but-rebound-in-may\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143000,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142960\/revisions\/143000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}