Remittances remain a crucial source of external finance for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In 2023, remittance flows to LMICs were supported by strong labor markets in the advanced economies...
Years of conflict have deepened the Yemeni economy’s longstanding reliance on cash. The country’s underdeveloped formal banking and financial infrastructure hinders credit intermediation, and most economic...
The remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) increased by an estimated 3.8 percent in 2023. This represents a slowdown in growth after the sharp increases in 2021–2022. The remittance...
This migration and development brief describes key developments in remittance flows that have occurred since the previous brief, published in November 2022. Projections of remittance trends in 2023 are...
This migration and development brief describes key developments in migration and remittance flows, and related policy and regulatory changes that have occurred since the previous brief, published in May...
This migration and development brief discusses the anticipated effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on migration and remittance flows. And ahead of the International Migration Review Forum to be...
This migration and development brief provides updates on global trends in migration and remittances. It highlights developments related to migration-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators...
The objective of the Nepal Cost of Migration Survey 2022-23 will be to estimate various migration worker related characteristics, which in turn will assist to produce the statistics needed to calculate...
This migration and development brief provides updates on global trends in migration and remittances. It highlights developments related to migration-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators...
The number of migrants has risen rapidly in the past few years for various reasons: job opportunities, labor shortages resulting from falling birth rates, internal conflict and war, natural disasters...
The growth rate of remittances to developing countries is projected to fall from 3.3 percent in 2014 to 2.0 percent in 2015. The impact of slow growth on remittance outflows measured in dollars is compounded...
Important documentation related to the Migration and Remittances Household Surveys, including the project report, methodological specifications, and anonymized microdata - have recently been made available...