Remittances have formed 3.3 to 8.9 percent of Pakistan’s GDP since 1980

Evidence

Since 1980, remittances from transnational workers have represented anywhere from 3.3 percent to 8.9 percent of the gdp, and the percentage has been rising rapidly since 2001.Ω The percentage dipped in the early 1990s—a time of economic crisis in the Middle East brought on by the first Persian Gulf War, which reduced the demand for labor migrants, and of structural adjustment in Pakistan, which reduced the overall e√ects of remittances in the domestic economy. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 504

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete scalar data on remittance share of GDP, useful for any argument about diaspora economics.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 504