- Mexican workers living in the US sent to relatives in
Mexico a record $13.27 billion in 2003, 35 percent more than in 2002, Dow
Jones reported.
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- Mexico's central bank said the transfers last year beat
foreign direct investment, which reached a seven-year low of $11 billion
in 2003.
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- More than 20 million people of Mexican origin live in
the US. Only half of them are estimated to have a bank account. Around
5 million are thought to be working in the US without legal status. Mexico's
economy is expected to have grown by 1.2 percent in 2003.
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