The MINEPAT (2009) forecast does not foresee that the crisis will have negative impacts on capital flows to the public sector, but exhibits a significant decrease (10%) of foreign capital going into the non-bank private sector in 2009 and also shows that portfolio flows in the banking sector went from 95 billion CFA francs in 2008 to -79 billion in 2009, reflecting a significant repatriation of funds with unfavourable effects on the national economy. The World Bank database dedicated to these flows shows that, as of 2007, more than three quarters of international remittances are destined for developing countries (table 4). In 2007, remittances accounted for an average of 2.02% of developing countries’ GDP, as opposed to 0.24% in high income countries and 0.71% for the entire world (Figure 5).