Migrant Remittance Flows

Examines how central banks and other national institutions regulate and collect data on cross-border remittance flows. Findings indicate that, although the vast majority of countries, in both sending and receiving countries, collect data on remittances, and 43% of receiving countries estimate informal remittances, there is a need for better coordinated data collection, both across national institutions and among different divisions within the same national institution, as well as between countries.