 September, 18.Today, the World Bank Lead Economist Willem van Eeghen presented the ECA flagship report Migration and Remittances – Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union for an external audience in the World Bank Country Office in Moldova. This report looks at migration flows to, from and within this region and the remittances that follows. For Moldova, the large outflows of migrants and inflows of remittances have had great impacts on the labor market, real wages, household earnings and consumption, but also on the exchange rate and other macro economic variables. A conclusion of the report is that migration can benefit both sending and receiving countries and reduce poverty among migrants if it is better coordinated between countries. 
The presentation of the report was followed by an open discussion. Participants: Willem van Eeghen - Lead Economist at WB
Melanie Marlett - Country Manager for WB in Moldova
Martin Wyss - IOM
 Think-tanks - 4
Academia - 3
NGOs - 7
National Bank rerpesentatives - 1
IOM Working Group on Migration and Remittances Data- 5
Media - 35 Presentations: Links to other resources: Main webpage of the "Migration and Remittances " report - here Feature story "Report: Labor Migration Likely to Grow in Europe and Central Asia" at launching the report (more languages available) - here Press releases "Migration Could Yield a 'Triple Win' For Migrants and Sending and Receiving Countries, Says World Bank Report" - here
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