Applying a Gender Lens to Digital Remittances
Digital remittances can form a gateway to better financial health and inclusion for migrants and their families. Yet one key factor influencing remittance behavior is often overlooked: gender.
How Do Digital Remittances Contribute to Women’s Financial Health?
Results from a UNCDF survey make clear the need for more gender-smart and migrant-centric remittance products.
Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2021: Migrant Efforts During the COVID-19 Crisis
This report focuses on the flows of remittances received by each country and sub-region in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2021 and hopes to provide input for decision-making on migration and remittances.
No Easy Solution: A Smorgasbord of Factors Drive Remittance Costs
This paper delves deeply into the complex remittances ecosystem where costs are driven by a myriad of factors, making it difficult to come up with solutions for reducing remittance costs.
Harnessing Digitization for Remittances in Asia and the Pacific
This report discusses the importance of remittances in Asia and the Pacific, the key challenges faced by the industry, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Defying the Odds: Remittances During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper provides an early assessment of the dynamics and drivers of remittances during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a newly compiled monthly remittance dataset for a sample of 52 countries, of which 16 countries with bilateral remittance data.
El Salvador Bitcoin Transfers Soar, but Still a Fraction of Dollar Remittances
Small transfers of bitcoin to El Salvador jumped over four-fold in May from a year ago but still represent a small amount when compared to remittances sent in dollars.
Fintech Potential for Remittance Transfers: A Central America Perspective
This paper analyzes the potential for fintech to facilitate cheaper and more efficient remittances, and to enhance financial inclusion in Central America.
Kenya: Remittances to Kenya Resist COVID-19
The increase in remittances comes despite the impact of the pandemic on wages and employment across the world.
IGAD and UNCDF Announce Agreement to Formalize, Enhance Regional Remittance Flows
Technical assistance collaboration will review relevant policies and regulations, promote cross-border coordination to shift remittances into safer, more transparent formal channels.