A few years ago, when a company such as Western Union, the American money transfer group, looked at a country such as Turkey, its employees thought they knew what to expect. Turkey was considered poor, and a source of migrants to places such as Germany. Thus, in money-transfer jargon, it was deemed an “inflow” country, since 90 per cent of the money that was moved across the Turkish border in small-scale wire transfers went into Turkey - not out.
幾年前,在美國匯款業集團西聯匯款(Western Union)等公司的員工眼中,土耳其等國究竟算作何種國家是顯而易見的。土耳其被視為一個窮國,一個向德國等地輸出移民的國家。因此,土耳其在匯款業行話中被稱作“流入”國——這是因為,土耳其跨境匯款額中的90%都是流入土耳其國內的小額電匯,而不是流向國外的匯款。
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