More than 5.6 billion KM sled last year from abroad to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
They are mainly the remittances of all the number of BH. The diaspora, which is in 2024. year to home directed HM 4.16 billion, which is more than 425 million KM more than in the previous year.
Large remittances
According to the Central Bank of BiH, BiH citizens were paid 1.38 billion KM on the basis of the right to pensions that have earned abroad.
– Large remittances from abroad are our tradition. They are sending them people who work there, and their families are here, so it is a logical flow of money movement. On the other hand, the number of our people who work outside, backwards is growing for several years. At the same time, in Germany, the controls related to monetary transactions are increasingly rigorous. Once people came for the holidays and brought cash. Now that is not, because the transfer of cash is limited, and more and more money goes through banks – says the economic expert, prof. Dr. Željko Ricka.
In the overall economic situation the importance of financial support BH. The citizens in the diaspora is priceless, confirms our interlocutor.
“Poor mi”
– Without our diaspora – Poor Me. Thank God we have that source, because almost 50 percent of bank deposits are savings. It would be good for the state to have a strategy for development, so that it is financed by various employment modalities of those who remain here. In this way, we educate people, then they go there to work and send us money, “Ricka stands out for Avaz.
