swisscontact: remittances and sustainable development
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Presentation by Dilip Ratha, World Bank - Remittances during the Swiss Consulate and Swisscontact event, September 17, 2015TRANSCRIPT
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Remittances and Sustainable Development:
A $100 billion Idea
Dilip Ratha
Swisscontact Event on Remittances, New York
September 17, 2015
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• International migrants: 250 million
• South-South migration larger than S-N migration
• Domestic migrants: 750 million
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Remittances
$440 Billion
Remittances
$135 Billion
Aid
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31%
Nepal
Poverty rate
42%
1995 2005
Aid that works!
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Dollars wrapped with care
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Exorbitant remittances costs
8% 12% 95%
Global average Africa Venezuela
20%
Within Africa
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8% (Global average)
$20 Billion
annual savings
3%
Reduce remittance cost
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• Size, corridors, channels
• Counter-cyclicality
• Effects on poverty, education, health, investment
• Policy (costs, competition, exchange controls)
1. Monitoring,
analysis,
projection
• Payment platforms/instruments
• Clearing/settlement, capital adequacy,
disclosure, cross-border arbitration
• Anti-money laundering (AML/CFT)
2. Retail payment
system
• Deposit and saving products
• Mortgage, consumer loans, microfinance
• Credit history for MFI clients
• Insurance products
3. Financial
access for
households,
SMEs
• Sovereign credit rating
• Bonds backed by future remittances as collateral
• Diaspora bonds
4. Capital market
access for
countries,
companies
Global Remittances Agenda
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Over $50 billion per year could be
mobilized via diaspora bonds
Diaspora size
(millions)
Estimated savings
($ billions)
Developing countries 181 511
East Asia & Pacific 29 116
Europe & Central Asia 42 93
Lat. America & Carib. 34 146
Middle East & N. Africa 19 47
Sub-Saharan Africa 22 37
South Asia 35 72
Source: Ratha and Mohapatra 2011.
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Income per year
$2,000
Recruitment fees
$4,000
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$4,000
$4 Billion
for every 1 million migrants
Reduce recruitment costs
$0
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• Diaspora savings via diaspora bonds ($50 bn)
• Reducing remittance costs ($20 bn)
• Reducing recruitment fees paid by low-
skilled migrant workers ($20 bn)
• Diaspora philanthropy ($10 bn)
• Using future-flows as collateral
($4-$25 bn for Africa alone)
$100 billion idea
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• Remittances cannot be equated to ODA
• Ensure adequate financial services for migrants
• Reduce cost of remittances by 2030 to less than
3%; no remittance corridor charges higher than 5%
• Address obstacles such as banks withdrawing
services
• Remove obstacles to non-bank RSPs accessing
payment system infrastructure
• Cheaper, faster and safer remittances through
competitive, transparent market conditions
• Exploit new technologies, promote financial literacy
and inclusion, and improve data collection
Remittances in Development Goals and
Financing for Development
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The Future
• Organic annual growth rate 7-8%
• South-South remittances and South-North
remittances to grow
• Remittance fees to fall, but FX margins to
remain
• Exploit remittance platforms for:
consumer saving, loans, insurance
diaspora bonds
philanthropy
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Thank you!
www.worldbank.org/migration
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