Around $300 million was brought into the country in 2006 in remittances and this has been used to pull people out of poverty.
That is the sentiment of leading economist, Professor Warden Narsey while launching the preliminary report on Poverty and household income in Fiji in 2008-2009.
Professor said that such huge amounts of remittances have strongly counter balanced the impact of declining Gross Domestic Product per capita for Fiji and therefore should not be overlooked.
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