Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:
The Consultant should prepare and submit a report that would have three pillars:
- Review of remittances into Tajikistan, identification of root causes of informal (cash based) remittances
- Methodology for quantitative assessment of cash based remittances into Tajikistan
- Qualitative estimation of informal economy in Tajikistan
The Consultant will review available information on the subjects of remittances to Tajikistan as well as informal economy. Analysis of current regulatory environment of the remittances should be conducted and potential improvements suggested, based on the experience of other countries. Additionally information collected form the stakeholders should be respectively considered and reflected in the report. Key outcome of this project should be methodology for assessing the informal remittances into Tajikistan as well as estimation (per availability of relevant information) of informal economy.