EU Remittances for Developing Countries, Remaining Barriers, Challenges and Recommendations : Final Report

Remittances are vitally important for the families of migrants (providing disposable funds), for developing country governments (as a valuable inflow of funds into their country) and for banks in receiving countries (by providing foreign currency and access to new potential customers). The European Commission (EC) and EU Member States have undertaken a number of remittance related initiatives over recent years and improvements have been made. However, there is still a significant amount of work to be done if the commitments made by the EC over the last five years with respect of remittances are to be met.

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Year of publication:	2012-07-30
Authors:	Isaacs, Leon ; Vargas-Silva, Carlos ; Hugo, Sarah
Institutions:	Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit - EuropeAid (contributor) ; HTSPE Limited (contributor) ; Euro Trends (contributor)
Subject:	Bankgewerbe \| banking \| Entwicklungsland \| developing country \| EU \| Geldtransfer \| transfer of money \| Geldwirtschaft \| money economy \| Migrant \| migrant

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Executive Summary
1 Methodology
2 Data
2.1 Definition of Remittances
2.2 Identifying sources of data on the stock of migrants
2.3 Migrant Stocks at EU and Country Level
2.4 Identifying Sources of Data on Remittances
2.5 Remittances outflows at EU and country level
2.6 The Luxembourg Group and its Recommendations
2.7 Size of the Unrecorded flows
2.8 Remittance Pricing
2.9 Recommendations
3 Policy
3.1 Key Policy Objectives of the EU in Respect of Remittances
3.2 The General Principles for International Remittance Services
3.2.1 Objectives
3.2.2 What are the General Principles
3.2.3 Assessment at EU Country Level
3.2.4 Recommendations
3.3 Payment Services Directive (PSD)
3.3.1 Objectives
3.3.2 What is the PSD
3.3.3 Authorised v Registered (Small PI)
3.3.4 Assessment at EU Country Level
3.3.5 Analysis of the Implementation on the PSD and the Challenges that have arisen in Respect of Remittances
3.3.6 Recommendations in respect of the PSD
3.4 Policy Coherence
3.4.1 Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing (AML-CTF)
3.4.2 Recommendations
3.5 Migration Policy
3.6 Remittances Portal
3.6.1 Objectives of a Portal
3.6.2 Standards for Remittance Price Databases
3.6.3 Existing web portals within the EU
3.6.4 Options for EU Portals
3.6.5 Recommendations
4 Development Agenda and Projects
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Setting the Scene – a Global Perspective
4.3 Overview of Remittances Projects funded through Aeneas and TPMA
4.3.1 Review of Projects Funded to Date
4.3.2 Remittances related flagship initiatives
4.3.3 Multi-region initiatives with a remittances component
4.4 Key Findings
4.4.1 Overall findings from Research
4.4.2 Project Analysis Findings
4.5 Recommendations
5 Summary of Progress Against Commitments
6 Summary of Recommendations
References
List of tables
List of figures
List of abbreviations

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