In our previous blog, we showed how remittance costs in Tonga could be much lower than the average calculated by Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) if households and workers chose low-cost Remittance Service Providers (RSPs). In this blog, we use the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey (PLMS) to show that households and workers actually tend to choose high-cost RSPs, with the result that realised remittance costs remain high.
The PLMS asks workers in Australia and New Zealand and households in the Pacific about the main remittance channels and…
