{"id":32090,"date":"2012-03-14T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/remittances-on-the-rise\/"},"modified":"2012-03-14T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T01:43:56","slug":"remittances-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/03\/14\/remittances-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Remittances on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> According to a study released by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) remittances sent to the Dominican Republic reached US$3.131 billion in 2011, an increase of 7.7% over 2010. <\/p>\n<p> This placed the Dominican Republic in fifth place amongst countries that receive remittances. First place was Mexico with US$22.731 billion, followed by Guatemala with US$4.377 billion, Colombia with US$4.168 billion, and El Salvador with US$3.65 billion.<\/p>\n<p> According to the report, remittances can make up as much as 5% of GNP in countries like the Dominican Republic, and many families would fall below the poverty line without this income. <\/p>\n<p> The statistics showed that migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, most of whom live in the US, sent around US$61 billion back to their countries of origin last year, 6% more than in 2010, as reported in acento.com.do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study released by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) remittances sent to the Dominican Republic reached US$3.131 billion in 2011, an increase of 7.7% over 2010. This placed the Dominican Republic in fifth place amongst countries that receive remittances. First place was Mexico with US$22.731 billion, followed by Guatemala with US$4.377 billion, Colombia &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/03\/14\/remittances-on-the-rise\/\" 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":[231,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32090"}],"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=32090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}