Tunes Spun On The Word Between our reports for October 7, 2009. Artists featured are Alien Chatter, Fussible, Sorotoumou, Oran Etkin, Bassekou Kouyate, Ngoni Ba, Harouna Samake, 1 Giant Leap, Speech, Nina Cherry
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For some poor nations, money sent back home from family members working in Western Europe and the U.S. is a lifeline. How has the financial crisis impacted this flow of money? Millions of migrant workers have lost their jobs or seen their incomes cut. The value of remittances is expected to fall for the first time since records have been kept. Download MP3
