Insights

To facilitate periodic reflections from our implementation and engagement experience, we present learning and observations to allow greater insights into the scope and impact of results. These insights are meant to promote cooperation among various stakeholders to improve efficiency in remittance markets, including strengthening the trust of migrants in digital solutions.

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Queens, One of the First COVID-19 Epicenters, Faces a New Crisis: Hunger

In one of New York’s most diverse communities, food banks struggle to meet the growing demand from immigrant families out of work.

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Nepal Faces a Crisis as COVID-19 Stems the Flow of Remittances

Remittances represent more than a quarter of Nepal’s economic output. The pandemic means migrant workers have swapped the risk of death or injury at work with the reality of poverty…

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Migrant Remittances in the Times of Covid-19: Insights From Remittance Service Providers

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, many migrants were already part of marginalized and vulnerable groups experiencing economic hardships in their countries of origin and host communities. Lockdowns and business closures…

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Learning How to Improve Remittances and Financial Services for Women and Men on the Move

The UNCDF-HKS Migrant Remittances and Financial Service programme was designed to immerse participants in a transformational learning experience through a combination of live lectures and group work. Faculty lectures and…

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Innovations to Improve Financial Inclusion of Migrant Women and Their Families: Lessons Learned from the Private Sector

Although women make up half of the world’s 281 million migrants and international remittance recipients, there is a distinct gender disparity between who accesses and uses digital remittances and other…

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Impact of COVID-19 on Migrants and Families as Shared by Remittance Service Providers

The financial and health vulnerabilities of migrants and their families have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis. Migrant workers and their families have not been spared from the dire consequences…

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How the Pandemic Triggered a Digital Revolution in Money Transfers

Millions switched to digital remittances last year, saving costs and improving financial inclusion. Experts hope that trend will continue.

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COVID-19 Exposes Opportunities as Well as Vulnerabilities for Migrants’ Remittances to Senegal

The coronavirus pandemic has caused remittances back into Senegal to dry up as COVID-19 has taken grip and lockdown measures have affected the migrant workers who normally send the money…

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Bangladesh Faces a Crisis in Remittances Amid COVID-19

The economic importance of the more than 10 million migrants from Bangladesh who sent close to $18 billion in 2019 cannot be overstated. International remittances normally represent around 7% of…