Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) March 2025 bulletin shows that there has been a gradual shift in the dominance of India’s remittances away from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
India’s inward remittances have more than doubled from $55.6 billion in 2010-11 to $118.7 billion in 2023-24.
Sathish Rangan 12 days
All these % increases are rupee-denominated and not foreign currency-denominated, can i presume?
And do we know how the rupee-to-foreign currency conversion ratio has impacted these relative %s? Trying to understand whether the rise of remittance from USA/UK is due to the weakening of the rupee against these respective currencies or if rupee-GCC-currency also weakened to the same extent, during this period.