Migration and Development Brief
Migration and Development Brief 28
Remittances to low- and middle-income countries are on course to recover in 2017 after two consecutive years of decline, says the latest edition of the World Bank’s Migration and Development Brief, released today. The Bank estimates that officially recorded remittances to developing countries are expected to grow by 4.8 percent to $450 billion for 2017. Global remittances, which include flows to high-income countries, are projected to grow by 3.9 percent to $596 billion.
Date
October
2017
Report Chapters and Remittance Inflows and Outflows Data
FULL REPORT
- TRENDS IN GLOBAL REMITTANCE FLOWS
- Remittances to Rebound in 2017
- Trends in the Cost of Remittances
- Exclusivity Contracts Hinder Competition on the Remittance Market
- De-risking by Commercial Banks Impacts Remittance Costs
- MIGRATION ISSUES
- Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants Taper in the European Union
- Worker-Paid Recruitment Costs
- Global Compact on Migration
- SPECIAL TOPIC: RETURN MIGRATION
- Conceptualizing and Quantifying Return Migration
- Forced Return—Challenges for Destination Countries
- Forced Return—Challenges for Origin Countries
- Evaluating Forced Return Policies
- Voluntary Return
- REGIONAL TRENDS IN MIGRATION AND REMITTANCE FLOWS
- Remittances to the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Region to Rebound in 2017
- Remittances to Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Projected to Increase in 2017
- Remittance Flows into Latin America and the Caribbean to Continue Rising in 2017
- Remittances to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region to Recover in 2017
- Remittances to the South Asia Region (SAR) to Remain Modest in 2017
- Remittances to Sub-Saharan Africa Accelerated in 2017