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Estimated volume of remittances

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€166 million in 2003
€123 million in 2004

(see: Cutting the Lifeline p. 18)

While in 1999 around 30% of all Kosovar households received remittances in cash or in kind from relatives abroad, this number has dropped to 15% in 2006.

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Cutting Kosovo's lifeline

  1. Preface: Why we wrote this report
  2. The basic dilemma
  3. Remittances: myth and reality
  4. What are remittances?
  5. Estimated volume of remittances
  6. Europe's largest families
  7. How many people live in Kosovo?
  8. Key facts: What do rural Kosovars earn?
  9. Women and employment
  10. Education
  11. Poverty
  12. Emigration
  13. May God never give him peace!
  14. The size of the Diaspora
  15. Towards a new Era
  16. Annex: Village research methodology
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