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How coronavirus could hit the billions migrant workers send home 

An employee counts Euro notes at the Bank of Taiwan head office in Taipei May 10, 2010. Global policymakers unleashed an emergency rescue package worth about $1 trillion to stabilise world financial markets and prevent the Greek debt crisis from destroying the euro currency. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang (TAIWAN - Tags: BUSINESS) - RTR2DOS9

An estimated $715 billion was sent home last year. Image: REUTERS/Pichi Chuang

Vincent Guermond
Research Associate in Geography, Royal Holloway
Kavita Datta
Professor in Development Geography, Queen Mary University of London
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