The economy has benefited enormously by hard-currency remittances from Salvadorans working in the U.S. and elsewhere.
In August remittances from Mexicans working north of the border suffered their biggest drop on record.
Remittances from the quarter to a third of Albanians who live abroad have dropped sharply.
Its Private Electronic Remittance and Communication System handles large volumes of money remittances fast.
Surprisingly, Mexico's central bank reckons this trend was bucked in October, when remittances rose sharply.
As noted here before, the best assistance tends to come from remittances by workers abroad.
Mexico's largest sources of foreign currency are oil sales, tourism and remittances from Mexicans working abroad.
Mexico's central bank now says that it expects a decline in remittances of 7-8% this year.
And if remittances keep flowing to countries south of the border, economic growth will be bolstered.
In 2008 their remittances amounted to 17% of national income, one of the world's higher rates.
Even for larger economies, such as India and China, remittances provide hefty flows of capital.
Migrant labourers wishing to send remittances home often do so in kind, rather than in cash.
Of more direct benefit to Sri Lankans are the remittances the refugees send to their families.
In addition, the Peruvian economy depends to a large extent on remittances and export trade revenues.
Many families rely on remittances from relations abroad, now Cuba's largest source of hard currency.
They spread wealth from rich to poor countries, but now remittances are being squeezed.
Mr Purcell has stopped issuing mortgages and, because of other Dodd-Frank rules, processing international remittances.
Japanese-Koreans have used remittances from relatives overseas as start-up capital for new trading businesses.
Rather than sugar, Cuba now relies on tourism and remittances for most of its foreign exchange.
African Customs Union (SACU), and worker remittances from South Africa supplement domestically earned income.
Remittances from Russia are worth more than a fifth of Tajikistan's economy (see chart).
The billions sent around the world in remittances each year is testimony to that.
Like M-Pesa, EasyPaisa offers remittances and bill pay -- it's already handled more than 270, 000 bill-pay transactions.
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The banks charge high fees for processing remittances, and pay a paltry 3-4% on most savings accounts.
The effect is beginning to be felt in Mexico too, especially in communities most dependent on remittances.
The value of their remittances has been further eroded by the appreciation of Myanmar's currency, the kyat.
Remittances in hard currency funnelled through hawala (Islamic word-of-mouth banks) may have more to do with it.
The Philippines has some 8m people abroad: their remittances provide about a tenth of total domestic output.
Remittances make up 33% of the gross domestic product of Haiti and 29% of the GDP of Nicaragua.
Flows of remittances from the US to Mexico are among the largest flows among all migrant workers worldwide.
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