{"id":164586,"date":"2021-09-13T08:14:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=164586"},"modified":"2021-09-13T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:22:32","slug":"remittances-still-on-record-setting-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/13\/remittances-still-on-record-setting-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Remittances still on record-setting trend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Remesas-El-Dinero-e1582983209579.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137089\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank reports the flow of remittances from abroad continues this year at the record pace set in 2020. In August 2021, remittances were US$872 million, which is US$102.2 million more than registered in August 2020. The total of remittances in 2020 was already 38.8% more than the US$628.4 million recorded for the pre-pandemic August 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From January to August 2021, remittances are US$7.03 billion. The number is US$1.96 billion more than in the same period of 2020, for a 38.6% increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank attributes the increase in remittances to the improvement of the economy in the United States. An estimated 2 million Dominicans live in the United States and keep close ties to their family in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bancentral.gov.do\/a\/d\/5184-banco-central-informa-que-el-flujo-de-remesas-supera-los-us70000-millones-de-manera-acumulada-al-mes-de-agosto-de-2021\">Central Bank<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 September 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank reports the flow of remittances from abroad continues this year at the record pace set in 2020. In August 2021, remittances were US$872 million, which is US$102.2 million more than registered in August 2020. The total of remittances in 2020 was already 38.8% more than the US$628.4 million recorded for the pre-pandemic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/13\/remittances-still-on-record-setting-trend\/\" 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":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164586"}],"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=164586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164611,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164586\/revisions\/164611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}