LONDON, April 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Africans face the highest remittance fees globally, regularly paying a "super tax" to send money home at a cost that hurts families and holds back development in the world's poorest continent, a thinktank said on Wednesday.
The London-based Overseas Development Institute (ODI) said reducing remittance charges to global average levels would generate $1.8 billion (1.07 billion pounds), enough to put 14 million children through primary school, or provide clean water to 21 million people.