CASH REMITTANCES : Up to $ 300 per quarter can be sent to relatives in Cuba, but now limited to immediate family : children, spouses, siblings, parents, grandparents, grandchildren.
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However, the ranks of impoverished female-headed families were swelled by families of absent migrant workers if they did not receive cash remittances, a new and non-traditional group of the poor.
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Drug smuggling appears to be increasingly important to North Korea's economy as cash remittances from Koreans in Japan have waned and aid from the former Soviet bloc has dried up.
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Clinton said last weekend that he was prohibiting cash remittances and reducing charter flights to Cuba to punish Fidel Castro for encouraging refugees to flee the island by boat and makeshift vessels.
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 sent Cuba into a severe economic crisis, Cubans have increasingly depended on cash remittances from relatives in the United States just to get by.
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According to RFE / RL, comparable sums are believed to be transferred through non-bank systems, implying that cash remittances make up approximately 30 percent of Armenia's GDP in the first half of 2008.
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Japan is turning up the heat on North Korea, threatening to suspend all cash remittances by Koreans to that communist country if it proceeds with plans to test-fire a new long-range ballistic missile.
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Meanwhile, President Clinton, also responding to the pope's entreaties, last month eased restrictions on aid, charter flights, and cash remittances from Cubans living in the United States to their relatives on the island.
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Until recently, rules under the U . S . embargo against Cuba allowed only family members of Cubans on the island to send up to dlrs 300 in cash remittances every three months.
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In terms of households'main sources of income, 7 % derived it from farming, 69 % from wages and salaries, 6 % cash remittances, 5 % from business or non-farming, and 10 % from pension.
