This Selected Issues paper analyzes the macroeconomic impact of workers’ remittances on Moldova. The paper focuses on …

payments, remittances, and securities settlement processes in El Salvador, based on international standards and best practices …

an important source of revenue. It also analyzes recent developments and the outlook for remittances to Kiribati, which …

worker remittances. It addresses the many common policy challenges facing Central American countries--Costa Rica, El Salvador …

changing structure of Cape Verde’s balance-of-payments financing calls for a closer look at the volatility of remittances and … their role as an absorber of economic shocks. The paper finds that compared with other external inflows, remittances … seems to be gradually fading, and remittances are becoming increasingly procyclical …

particular, the contribution that external inflows, in the form of workers’ remittances and concessional lending, may have made …

classifications related to remittances. It is consistent with the new standards for measuring balance of payments transactions, as … are used globally to compile comprehensive and comparable data. The RCG identifies the main remittances compilation … manual providing compilation guidance for remittances and is also the first compilation guide based on concepts set out in …