Thursday 23 September 2010

Enabling international remittance services in Georgia

Archil Bakuradze is the chairman of the microfinance institution Crystal Fund. Here he discusses the “Reaching Georgia’s Rural Poor through Mobile Remittances” project, which is a joint effort of the Crystal Fund, Mobile Finance Eurasia and the microfinance organization Crystal and is funded by the Financial Facility for Remittances of the International Fund for Agriculture Development.


International remittances play an important role in the lives of people across the world, but in Georgia they are of major economic importance, accounting for 9% of the country’s GDP. According to various studies, about half of international remittances in Georgia go to rural areas.
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