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🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Each year millions of Indians go abroad to study and work. A lot of them end up sending money back home, a transfer known as remittances.
The money is a crucial source of household income in low and middle-income countries, according to the World Bank. India is the only country to have received more than 100 billion dollars through this route - but it comes at a loss of its human capital. We speak to Indian expats and economists to explore the effect of remittances on the Indian economy.
Presenter/ producer: Devina Gupta
(Photo: Closeup view of a man counting Indian currency. Credit: Getty Images)
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0:00.0 | Hello and namaste. I'm Divina Gupta and today on Business Daily we take a look at the flow of money around the world that has the power to reshape economies. |
0:12.2 | I'm talking about billions of dollars that migrants send from one country to the other. This money is called remittance, or remittance, in some parts of the world. |
0:23.6 | When you do send many, there are certain walks, there are certain commitment which get fulfilled. |
0:28.4 | So it's all the way at the end. It's feel happy. |
0:31.4 | In 2022, the World Bank calculated that migrants sent home nearly $800 billion. |
0:38.3 | 80% of that was sent to low and middle-income countries. |
0:42.3 | And India received $100 billion, the largest amount. |
0:47.3 | The actual number is likely to be larger than that. |
0:50.3 | And they are sending a huge amount of money from all over the world. |
0:53.3 | But how much of this money is actually helping in India's development? |
0:58.3 | And what are the dangers of depending on a remittance economy? |
1:02.3 | There's definitely an element of that workforce which wants to apply for jobs abroad |
1:07.6 | as a ticket to bright financial future for themselves and their family. |
1:12.0 | We look at all those questions on Business Daily as we talk about the big Indian |
1:16.3 | remittance economy. |
1:24.1 | Hi, hi, good morning. |
1:26.8 | That's how Mehub Alam, who works in Saudi Arabia, usually connects with his family in India. |
1:33.3 | He's an electric engineer in the Saudi National Oil Company, Aramco, and tells me how he transfers |
1:39.8 | money back home every month. |
1:42.1 | We came here to save only money because I do not have family here. |
1:45.7 | My whole family live in India. |
1:47.6 | So I have to send it back. |
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