Remittances from Salvadorans working in the United States sent to family members are a major source of foreign income and offset the substantial trade deficit of around $ 2. 9 billion.

Remittances from Eritreans abroad and foreign aid form a significant portion of Eritrea ’ s income.

Land, water, and climatic conditions provide opportunities for large-scale irrigated farming and agroindustry. Remittances from Guineans living and working abroad and coffee exports account for the rest of Guinea's foreign exchange.

Remittances are the primary source of foreign exchange, equaling nearly 20 % of GDP and more than twice the earnings from exports.

Remittances from Hondurans living abroad ( mostly in the U. S .) rose 28 % to $ 410 million in 2000.

Remittances from Moldovans abroad account for almost 38 % of Moldova's GDP, the second-highest percentage in the world.

Remittances are a major source of income, equivalent to 15 % of the country's GDP, which originate primarily from Costa Rica, the United States, and European Union member states.

Remittances from Bangladeshis working overseas, mainly in the Middle East, is the major source of foreign exchange earnings ; exports of garments and textiles are the other main sources of foreign exchange earnings.

Remittances from these communities constitute another aspect of Pitcairn's income.

Remittances from these expatriate communities makes Kerala one of the main contributors of foreign exchange to Indian economy.

Remittances sent to poor countries, such as India, are sometimes larger than foreign direct investment and total remittances are more than double aid flows from OECD countries.

Remittances are increasing at an annual rate of 6. 5 %, and an estimated $ 1. 35 billion will enter the national economy during 1999.

Remittances sent by OFWs to the Philippines contribute to the country's economy, with a value of more than US $ 10 billion in 2005.

Remittances were $ 513, 000, 000 in 2006 and they represented 2. 3 % of the country's GDP.

Outward Remittances were $ 246, 000, 000 in 2006.

Remittances were close to $ 2. 7 billion in 2006.

Remittances have increased steadily in the last decade and reached an all-time high of $ 2. 9 billion in 2005 — approximately 17. 1 % of gross domestic product ( GDP ).

Remittances sent by Haitians living abroad are important in paying educational costs.

Remittances are the primary source of foreign exchange, equaling nearly 20 % of GDP.

International Migration, Remittances, and Brain Drain.

* Vientiane Buffalos RUFC, a semi-pro rugby union football club from Vientiane, Lao P. D. R., consisting mostly of expatriate players

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

Although the ČSLA, as formed in 1945, included both Soviet-and British-equipped / trained expatriate troops, the " Western " soldiers had been purged from the ČSLA after 1948 when the communists took power.

According to a UN report in 2007, Afghanistan has received over $ 3. 3 billion from its expatriate community in 2006.

Awareness of the brand was spread in Britain by the satirical political magazine " Private Eye " which ran a cartoon series " The Adventures of Barry McKenzie ", featuring a bumbling Foster's swilling Australian expatriate, from about 1964 onwards.

Bogart gained his first real romantic lead in 1942's Casablanca, playing Rick Blaine, the hard-pressed expatriate nightclub owner, hiding from the past and negotiating a fine line among Nazis, the French underground, the Vichy prefect and unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend.

At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a goldsmith, but soon after travelled to Rome where he learned engraving from an expatriate Frenchman, Philippe Thomassin.

With some assistance from the international community, and funded by an expatriate Libyan, a limited international service became available in mid-April.

There is a sprinkling of immigrants from other African countries including a small expatriate South African community.

Berger was an expatriate American with dual citizenship ; Slavin, at 18 the youngest of the hostages, had only arrived in Israel from the Soviet Union four months before the Olympic Games began.

In Bangladesh, foreign passport holders of non-Muslim nations can drink in some licenced restaurants and bars ( and expatriate clubs ) and can purchase imported alcohol from ' diplomatic bonded warehouses ' at a hefty rate of sales duty ( Approx 300 %).

In the English-speaking world, the Douay-Rheims Bible — translated from the Latin Vulgate by expatriate recusants in Rheims, France in 1582 ( New Testament ) and in Douai, France in 1609 ( Old Testament )— which was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749 – 1752 ( the 1750 revision is that which is printed today ), was, until the prompting for " new translations from the original languages " given by Pope Pius XII in the 1942 encyclical letter Divino afflante spiritu and the Second Vatican Council, the translation used by most Catholics ( after Divino afflante spiritu, translations multiplied in the Catholic world, just as they multiplied in the Protestant world around the same time beginning with the Revised Standard Version, with various other translations being used around the world for English-language liturgies, ranging from the New American Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and the upcoming English Standard Version Catholic lectionary ).

In addition to the expatriate community, Samoa also receives roughly $ 97. 57 million annually in official development assistance from sources led by Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

Tajikistan has been hit harder than many countries because it already has a high poverty rate and because many of its citizens depend on remittances from expatriate Tajikistanis.

The theocratic government was founded by an expatriate Drukpa monk, Ngawang Namgyal, who arrived in Bhutan in 1616 seeking freedom from the domination of the Gelugpa subsect led by the Dalai Lama ( Ocean Lama ) in Lhasa.

The UAE host expatriate workers from over 150 countries with majority coming from India, Philippines, Iran, England, France, Germany, Pakistan and China.

The Bastos neighbourhood, with most homes owned by Cameroonians, is home to foreign embassies and the expatriate European community ( drawn mainly from the diplomatic corps ).

Mikimoto did not know that government biologist Tokishi Nishikawa and a carpenter, Tatsuhei Mise, had each spent time in Australia and learned the secret to spherical pearl production from expatriate British marine biologist William Saville-Kent — inserting a piece of oyster epithelial membrane ( the lip of mantle tissue ) with a nucleus of shell or metal into an oyster's body or mantle causes the tissue to form a pearl sack.

The rise of Koine is conventionally marked by the accession in 285 BC of ( Greek-speaking ) Ptolemy II, who ruled from Alexandria, Egypt and launched the " Alexandrian period ", when the city of Alexandria and its expatriate Greek-medium scholars flourished.

The first two maritime republics held consulates and had expatriate colonies there ( Ragusan merchants remained active at the port through the 17th century operating from their colony in nearby Provadiya ).

The town derives its name from General William " Lord Stirling " Alexander, a Scottish expatriate, who served valiantly under Gen. George Washington in the New York and other campaigns.