ЕКОНОМИКА Vol. 68, january-march 2022, № 1 ISSN 0350-137X, EISSN 2334-9190, UDK 338 (497,1) 105 http://www.ekonomika.org.rs Marija Đekić 1 Nenad Ravić 2 Tamara Vesić 3 Faculty of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship POSITIVE FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF MIGRATIONS AND THE DIASPORA FOR THE PEOPLE AND ECONOMY OF SERBIA Abstract The subject of the paper is the analysis of economic and social advantages of remittance infows from the Serbian diaspora. Remittances are important for domestic economy and people for several reasons. First and foremost, these remittances are at a high level because of a large number of Serbs that have emigrated in the decades behind us. Even though the exact amount of these remittances cannot be precisely calculated, due to the fact that a great portion of remittances comes to Serbia via informal channels, remittance infows can have positive efects on many economic aspects of receiving countries, especially in the case of transitioning countries that have gone through difcult periods of economic and political crises, war crisis and devastations. Infows from diaspora can afect the reduction of poverty, development of economic entities, and even the exchange rate of the country and economic development as a whole, and the diaspora can infuence the improvement of political climate and economic relationships with foreign countries. In this paper, we wanted to examine the correlation and strength of the relationship (if any) between the trends of Serbia's GDP and remittances, as well as the relationship between GDP per capita in Serbia and remittances. The correlation procedure was performed in the IBM SPSS 21 program, and the World Bank data were used as a basis. It was concluded that the trend ratio of the GDP of Serbia and remittances is characterized by a positive correlation which was observed in the trend of the GDP of Serbia and remittances. Key words: remittances, infows from abroad, diaspora, migrations, foreign direct investments JEL classifcation: F22, F24 ПОЗИТИВНИ ФИНАНСИЈСКИ АСПЕКТИ МИГРАЦИЈА И ДИЈАСПОРЕ ЗА СТАНОВНИШТВО И ПРИВРЕДУ СРБИЈЕ Апстракт Предмет рада је анализа економских и социјалних предности прилива дозна- ка из српске дијаспоре. Дознаке за домаћу привреду и становништва значајне 1 djekicrm@gmail.com, ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7720-0981 2 nenad_ravic_bps@yahoo.com, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3311-5790 3 tamara.vesic@vspep.edu.rs, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5747-7542 SCIENTIFIC REVIEW ARTICLE DOI: 10.5937/ekonomika2201105D Received: December, 28. 2021. Accepted: February, 11. 2022. P. 105-116