*Bolivia’s central bank (BCB) has announced that remittances sent to the country between January-November 2023 totalled a record high of US$1.29bn, up US$2m on the amount received in the same period of the previous year. The greatest share of remittances was sent from Spain (30.3%), followed by Chile (21.9%), the US (21.4%), Brazil (6.5%), and Argentina (4.9%).
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