Reducing remittance costs: consolidating trends and harnessing gains
Topic: Remittances
Regions: Africa • Europe
Clients: African Union • EU
DMAG devised the concept note, meeting agenda and background paper for three annual AU-EU high-level remittances meetings organised within the C2CMMD framework.
The most recent paper, in 2021, covered (1) EU-AU remittance corridors from 2015 to 2021, with a special focus on pricing trends and the impact of COVID-19 and (2) the growth of digitalisation and opportunities for leveraging remittances for development and financial resilience.