But most people, especially in the U.S., know relatively little about it. Global migration is a huge topic, one that we at Western Union are more familiar with than most. So says author Jason DeParle, in the prologue of his new book “ A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves,” a deeply reported personal story of an extended Filipino family who, over three decades, go their separate ways all over the world to find economic opportunity for themselves and to share it with the loved ones they’ve left behind. Migration is the world’s largest antipoverty program, a homegrown version of foreign aid.” “My own light bulb moment came in learning that remittances - the sums migrants send home - are three times the world’s foreign aid budgets combined.
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