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World Bank/KNOMAD remittance-price corridor index (RPI)

Average cost (%) of sending $200 through formal channels to top EM remittance-receiving corridors

Feed detail
Measures
Average cost (%) of sending $200 through formal channels to top EM remittance-receiving corridors
Source
remittanceprices.worldbank.org (official quarterly database with historical CSV download)
Access
csv
Cadence
monthlyupdates roughly monthly
Thesis
Rising formal remittance costs push flows into informal/crypto channels, amplifying black-market FX premiums
Maps to
USD/PHP, USD/NGN, USD/PKR, USD/BDT corridors
Crowdedness
commodity
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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