For the less competitive sectors tend to have the higher transaction prices. Prices in lower-volume remittance corridors, such as those communicating with Africa, tend to be significantly higher. For example, in the first quarter of 2011, according to the World Bank, it cost on average 6.87% of the transmitted sum to send funds from the United States to Mexico but 38.94% to send money from Ghana to Nigeria, and 47.24% to send money from Tanzania to Kenya15. These differences may well reflect the higher percentages incurred by smaller transactions, a syndrome widely observed across many sectors and which contributes in turn to the ‘poor pay more’ syndrome. However, lower transaction costs and charges, enabled by more flexible technology, could diminish the effect of this pattern. The G8 meeting in Aquila, Italy in 2009 agreed the ‘5x5 statement’ that set the target of reducing the global average of remittances costs from the present 10% average cost to 5% within five years through enhanced information, transparency, competition and cooperation. Without a technological challenge, it is not clear how this will happen; it took the challenge of mobile telephony for the fixed line sector to reform.