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June 18, 2010: A Scorecard in the Market for Money Transfers: Trends in Competition in Latin America and the Caribbean (PDF)
By Manuel Orozco, Elisabeth Burgess and Landen Romei
This report presents a review of remittance markets from the United States to 15 selected Latin America and Caribbean countries. It finds competition among remittance service providers (RSPs) relatively strong, with lower costs, high consumer satisfaction, and payout networks spanning over 50,000 payment points across the region.

May 6, 2010: Remittances and development: financial literacy in an international perspective (PDF)
By Manuel Orozco, Elisabeth Burgess, Nancy Castillo and Landen Romei
This draft paper presents an analysis and the results of fieldwork in the area of financial education as a tool to convert remittance clients into bank clients.

April 30, 2010: Skilled Diasporas: an imagined or real community? (PDF)
By Manuel Orozco and Mariellen Jewers
This paper provides a roadmap to understand the issues that shape what is referred to as skilled diasporas and their practices with development. The analysis problematizes the idea of the skilled diasporas as agents of knowledge transfer and offers practical policy strategies to link these groups to possible knowledge transfer mechanisms as development tool. We argue that these skilled diasporas or migrant transnational communities are relatively small groups, constituting less than 20% of a migrant population whose skills may not be necessarily in correspondence with the development needs of home countries. To that effect, practical policy considerations are important to keep in place.

March 20, 2010: Migration, remittances and assets in Bangladesh: Considerations about their intersection and development policy recommendations (PDF)
By Manuel Orozco
This report presents an analysis of the results of a survey conducted on more than 10,000 households in Bangladesh. The study shows relevant information that can enhance the conditions of people who migrate and search for greater opportunities to achieve development.

December 1, 2009: ¿Cuánto están aprendiendo los niños en América Latina? Datos destacados del Segundo Estudio Regional Comparativo y Explicativo (SERCE) (PDF)
By PREAL (Alejandro Ganimian)
El documento resume los resultados principales del SERCE, el estudio de UNESCO que evaluó el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes en el tercer y sexto grados en matemáticas, lectura y ciencias en 16 países de América Latina. Compara los países participantes en términos del rendimiento promedio; estudiantes con alto y bajo rendimiento; y diferencias en su rendimiento por sexo, zona de residencia, y PIB per capita.

September 1, 2009: PREAL Working Paper No. 43: Teacher Effectiveness (PDF)
By PREAL (Barbara Hunt)
The working paper discusses the state of the teaching profession, examines different approaches to defining and measuring teacher effectiveness, and reviews findings on how to improve it.

September 1, 2009: How Much Are Latin American Children Learning?: Highlights from the Second Regional Student Achievement Test (SERCE) (PDF)
By PREAL (Alejandro Ganimian)
The document summarizes the principal findings of SERCE, the UNESCO study that evaluated the skills of third and sixth graders in math, reading and science in 16 Latin American countries. It compares the participating countries in terms of average scores; high and low achieving students; and differences in performance by gender, place of residence and GDP per capita.

August 10, 2009: Understanding the continuing effect of the economic crisis on remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean (PDF)
By Manuel Orozco
This report presents fieldwork research and results of a nationwide survey of Latin American and Caribbean migrants on how the economic crisis is affecting their economic situation and their ability to send remittances. The study shows that difficulties are mounting for migrants who send money home to take care of their families, and it estimates that in 2009 flows to Latin America may drop by 11% over 2008 values.

July 31, 2009: La Economía Local y las Respuestas de los Gobiernos Ante los Envíos de Remesas en América Latina y el Caribe (PDF)
By Manuel Orozco
El presente informe evalúa la intersección entre las remesas y las economías locales en cinco ciudades de América Latina y el Caribe. Examinamos la medida en que estas economías realmente absorben las remesas en su base productiva y las respuestas de los gobiernos locales a estas realidades.

July 31, 2009: Remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean: Their Impact on Local Economies and the Response of Local Governments (PDF)
By Manuel Orozco
This report assesses the intersection of remittances with the local economies of five cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. We explore the extent to which these economies effectively absorb remittances into their productive base and the response of the local governments to these realities. Th e global is local: remittances go to a myriad of places outside capitals and large cities.

July 17, 2009: Corruption in the Andean Region: Is Progress Being Made? (PDF)
By Carlos Basombrío Iglesias
This working paper, written by Carlos Basombrío, is the eighteenth in a special series focused on the Andean countries of South America. The paper examines the debate over corruption in the Andes and uses examples from all five Andean countries to assess corruption's effect on political stability and democratic viability.

May 8, 2009: Migration and Remittances in Times of Recession: Effects on Latin American Economies (PDF)
By Manuel Orozco
This study by the Inter-American Dialogue shows that in 2009 immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean will remit US$64 billion, down from US$69 billion in 2008. Moreover, the study shows that in 2009, as the crisis worsens, migrants will reduce their flows by as much as 7 percent due to job losses, lower earnings, and slower migration (including continued deportations). This decline is far less damaging than that expected from exports, yet not negligible. The study is based on an analysis of the impact of the economic downturn on family remittances and the subsequent effect that such an impact is expected to have on the Latin American economies.

May 8, 2009: Recesión global migraciones y remesas efectos sobre las economías de américa latina y el caribe (PDF)
By Manuel Orozco
Este estudio por el Diálogo Interamericano muestra que en 2009 inmigrantes de América Latina y el Caribe remitirán US$64 millones, menor de los US$69 millones remitidos en 2008. Además, el estudio muestra que en 2009, mientras la crisis se empeora, inmigrantes reducirán sus flujos por hasta 7 por ciento debido a la pérdida del trabajo, ganancias menores y migración más lenta (incluyendo deportaciones continuadas). Este decenso es mucho menos dañino que lo esperado de las exportaciones, pero no es insignificante. El estudio se basa en un analisis del impacto de la crisis económica en las remesas familiares y el efecto consecuente que tal impacto tendrá en la economía latinoamericana.

May 7, 2009: Asegurando futuros: el interés de inversión y estrategia de comercialización para los salvadoreños en el exterior (PDF)
By Manuel Orozco
Este documento es el resultado de un estudio sobre el mercado salvadoreño de inversión. En particular saca a relucir el interés en invertir de más del veinte por ciento de la comunidad migrante salvadoreña, con una preferencia hacia la inversión en vivienda personal y familiar. El informe introduce además una estrategia que promueve la comercialización de préstamos para la vivienda.

March 10, 2009: A Second Chance: U.S. Policy in the Americas (PDF)
By Inter-American Dialogue
The Inter-American Dialogue’s 2009 policy report offers the Obama administration a ten-point agenda for the Western Hemisphere and emphasizes that, in the coming period, the highest priority challenge for the United States and every other country in the Americas will be the slumping world economy and its social and political fallout.

March 5, 2009: The Cuban Condition: Migration, Remittances, and its Diaspora (PDF)
By Manuel Orozco
As in many other developing countries, migration has become a key component of the Cuban economy. This brief paper presents the results of two random surveys conducted on Cubans in the United States and in Cuba about migration, remittances and ownership of financial assets. The findings are also compared with a previous survey conducted in 2005 and point to a trend of change and continuity.

March 5, 2009: The Cuban Condition: Migration and Remittances (PDF)
By Manuel Orozco
Presentation from survey release and discussion on remittances to Cuba. Presented on March 5, 2009 at the Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC.

March 1, 2009: Efectividad del desempeño docente. Una reseña de la literatura internacional y su relevancia para mejorar la educación en América Latina. (PDF)
By PREAL (Barbara Hunt)
El documento contiene una reseña de la literatura internacional reciente sobre los temas relacionados con la efectividad docente. La primera sección presenta una definición operativa de la “efectividad docente”. Sigue un panorama general de las necesidades educativas, de la situación de los docentes y de su formación en los países latinoamericanos. La tercera sección destaca distintos abordajes para definir y medir la efectividad docente, mientras que la cuarta reseña lo que dice la literatura sobre cómo mejorar la efectividad docente. La quinta sección lleva al contexto latinoamericano los hallazgos de la literatura internacional en estas materias. El documento concluye con una propuesta de definición de efectividad docente.

February 1, 2009: Media and Governance: A Reform Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean (PDF)
By Inter-American Dialogue
In January 2008, the Inter-American Dialogue organized an intensive, full-day workshop to review a set of challenges facing the media in Latin America and the Caribbean and to begin to think about ways to enable the press to be a more positive force for democracy in the region. The conference was specifi cally concerned with four issues: government laws and regulations regarding the media, concentration of media ownership, indirect censorship, and the nexus of media responsibility and the quality of democracy.

January 1, 2009: Educación, un desafío de urgencia nacional: Informe de Progreso Educativo, Guatemala 2008 (PDF)
By PREAL / CIEN
El informe nacional es el segundo producido por PREAL y su contraparte guatemalteca, el Centro de Investigaciones Económicas Nacionales (CIEN), y evalúa el estado y progreso del sistema educativo durante los años 2000 a 2006, usando los mejores datos disponibles.