Remittances to the developing world hit record $647 billion, aiding the poor but helping keep strongmen from Nicaragua to Tajikistan in power

African migrants recently sailed in a wooden boat in the Mediterranean Sea toward Europe. Joan Mateu Parra/Associated Press
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