Remittances , Migration and Trivia
Reading this in Rediff, gave me an idea for another trivial pursuit.
What is remittance? A remittance is a transfer of money by a foreign worker to his home country.
India, once again, topped the global remittance inflows maintaining its # 1 Rank. It is not entirely surprising given the huge number of migrants the country possesses and the close ties that these NRIs/PIOs tend to have with their mother country.
Instead of boring you with my perspective on remittances & migration , I have decided to compose a small quiz on "remittances". Here it is :
1. Which country has the highest number of emigrant workers in the world?
2. Which country has the highest remittance to GDP ratio ( A whooping 45.5% in 2008)?
3. Which state in India is the largest receiver of remittances?
Reading this in Rediff, gave me an idea for another trivial pursuit.
What is remittance? A remittance is a transfer of money by a foreign worker to his home country.
India, once again, topped the global remittance inflows maintaining its # 1 Rank. It is not entirely surprising given the huge number of migrants the country possesses and the close ties that these NRIs/PIOs tend to have with their mother country.
Instead of boring you with my perspective on remittances & migration , I have decided to compose a small quiz on "remittances". Here it is :
1. Which country has the highest number of emigrant workers in the world?
2. Which country has the highest remittance to GDP ratio ( A whooping 45.5% in 2008)?
3. Which state in India is the largest receiver of remittances?
Labels: Quiz, Remittances
posted by Cogito at
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
3 Comments:
1. Which country has the highest number of emigrant workers in the world?
ANS:United States
no.of migrants:38,355,000
Percentage of total number of
immigrants in the world:20.56
source:wikipedia(ofcourse)
2. Which country has the highest remittance to GDP ratio ( A whooping 45.5% in 2008)?
ANS:Tajikistan
source:www.funtrivia.com
3. Which state in India is the largest receiver of remittances?
ANS:Kerela
source:guesswork
By
ThE LooP, at 6:17 PM
Loop,
Good job !
Here are the answers :
1. Mexico ( May be I framed the question wrongly but my question was which country sends the highest no of emigrant workers).
2. Tajikistan
3. Yes, Kerala indeeed.
By
Cogito, at 10:24 AM
For 2, I thought it was Mexico again. Do you know the same figures for Mexico?
By
Srihari SN, at 9:20 PM
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