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From the Ted Talk by Dilip Ratha: The hidden force in global economics sending money home

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I was in Dubai a few years ago. I visited a camp for workers. It was 8 in the evening, dark, hot, humid. wreokrs were cminog back from their grueling day of work, and I struck a conversation with a Bangladeshi construction worker. He was preoccupied that he is sending mnoey home, he has been sending money home for a few months now, and the money is mostly going to the recruitment agent, to the labor agent who found him that job. And in my mind, I could picture the wife waiting for the mnthloy rtanmetcie. The remittance arrives. She tekas the money and hands it over to the recruitment agent, while the cdilerhn are looking on. This has to stop.

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I was in Dubai a few years ago. I visited a camp for workers. It was 8 in the evening, dark, hot, humid. _______ were ______ back from their grueling day of work, and I struck a conversation with a Bangladeshi construction worker. He was preoccupied that he is sending _____ home, he has been sending money home for a few months now, and the money is mostly going to the recruitment agent, to the labor agent who found him that job. And in my mind, I could picture the wife waiting for the _______ __________. The remittance arrives. She _____ the money and hands it over to the recruitment agent, while the ________ are looking on. This has to stop.

Solution

  1. remittance
  2. takes
  3. workers
  4. children
  5. monthly
  6. coming
  7. money

Original Text

I was in Dubai a few years ago. I visited a camp for workers. It was 8 in the evening, dark, hot, humid. Workers were coming back from their grueling day of work, and I struck a conversation with a Bangladeshi construction worker. He was preoccupied that he is sending money home, he has been sending money home for a few months now, and the money is mostly going to the recruitment agent, to the labor agent who found him that job. And in my mind, I could picture the wife waiting for the monthly remittance. The remittance arrives. She takes the money and hands it over to the recruitment agent, while the children are looking on. This has to stop.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
send money 14
money home 9
sending money 9
billion dollars 5
poor people 5
money transfer 5
migrants send 4
developing countries 3
transfer companies 3
post office 3
united states 2
development aid 2
receive remittances 2
side receives 2
blanket ban 2
fixed cost 2
money service 2
money laundering 2
exclusive partnerships 2
small remittances 2
remittance platform 2
aid budget 2
remittance channels 2
migrant workers 2
bangladeshi construction 2
construction worker 2
recruitment fees 2
diaspora giving 2
percent interest 2
stay engaged 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
send money home 6
money transfer companies 3
migrants send money 2
sending money home 2

Important Words

  1. agent
  2. arrives
  3. bangladeshi
  4. camp
  5. children
  6. coming
  7. construction
  8. conversation
  9. dark
  10. day
  11. dubai
  12. evening
  13. grueling
  14. hands
  15. home
  16. hot
  17. humid
  18. job
  19. labor
  20. mind
  21. money
  22. monthly
  23. months
  24. picture
  25. preoccupied
  26. recruitment
  27. remittance
  28. sending
  29. stop
  30. struck
  31. takes
  32. visited
  33. waiting
  34. wife
  35. work
  36. worker
  37. workers
  38. years