Remittances


The Migration Policy Institute is a well-respected organization that, among other things, collects and disseminates information on the movement of peoples throughout the world. I want to encourage you to check out their interactive remittance inflows and outflows map. HERE you will find the quantities of money sent from and […]

Money and the Movement of the Nations


Pew Research posted a brief article last month on global remittance flows. It contains an excellent interactive map worth your time. In 2016, an estimated $574 billion dollars (US) was sent by migrants back to their home countries. While that number is slightly down from the previous year, that is […]

Bridges of God in 2018


The Global Remittances Guide, recently released by the Migration Policy Institute, is a fascinating resource.  It is estimated that 216 million people (three percent of the world’s population) live outside of their countries of birth.  This is roughly equivalent to the population of the fifth largest country in the world. […]

Peoples on the Move