This month the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Inter-American Development Bank released a study showing that in 2006 migrants working in industrialized countries send more than US$300 billion to developing nations.

On 23 October 2007, Riz Khan of Al-Jazeera network spoke to Matthew Wyatt, Assistant President External Affairs Department of IFAD and Donald Terry, Manager of the Multilateral Investment Fund of Inter-American Development Bank.

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Hot links Sending money home: Worldwide remittance flows to developing countries Migrant workers worldwide sent home more than US$300 billion in 2006, new study finds Al-Jazeera website