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When the opportunity came, I crossed two oceans, with borrowed money for airfare and only a $20 bill in my pocket.
And with the little I earned, I would finance myself and then I would send money home to my brother and my father.
They risk their lives to realize a dream, and that dream is as simple as having a decent job somewhere so they can send money home and help the family, which has helped them before.
Some 180 million of them, from poor countries, send money home regularly.
Those sums of money are called remittances.
Migrants from developing countries, money sent to developing countries — 413 billion dollars.
That's a remarkable number because that is three times the size of the total of development aid money.
But, repeated month after month, by millions of people, these sums of money add up to rivers of foreign currency.
Remittances, unlike private investment money, they don't flow back at the first sign of trouble in the country.
Migrants send more money then.
Unlike development aid money, that must go through official agencies, through governments, remittances directly reach the poor, reach the family, and often with business advice.
Migrants send money home for food, for buying necessities, for building houses, for funding education, for funding healthcare for the elderly, for business investments for friends and family.
Migrants send even more money home for special occasions like a surgery or a wedding.
And migrants also send money, perhaps far too many times, for unexpected funerals that they cannot attend.
Foremost among them is the exorbitant cost of sending money home.
Money transfer companies structure their fees to milk the poor.
The global average cost of sending money is eight percent.
To send money to Africa, the cost is even higher: 12 percent.
To send money within Africa, the cost is even higher: over 20 percent.
For example, sending money from Benin to Nigeria.
Of course, nobody sends money to Venezuela through the official channel.
Whereever costs are high, money goes underground.
And what is worse, many developing countries actually have a blanket ban on sending money out of the country.
Many rich nations also have a blanket ban on sending money to specific countries.
So, is it that there are no options, no better options, cheaper options, to send money?
M-Pesa in Kenya enables people to send money and receive money at a fixed cost of only 60 cents per transaction.
U.S. Fed started a program with Mexico to enable money service businesses to send money to Mexico for a fixed cost of only 67 cents per transaction.
And yet, these faster, cheaper, better options can't be applied internationally because of the fear of money laundering, even though there is little data to support any connection, any significant connection between money laundering and these small remittance transactions.
Many international banks now are wary of hosting bank accounts of money service businesses, especially those serving Somalia.
In the villages, the only place where you can get money is through the post office.
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