Projects

• Estimating the Economic Impacts of Expanding Best Practices to Financial Services in Low and Moderate-income California Communities
• Migrant Remittances Newsletter 
• (Latest Edition: August 2009)
• Enabling the African Remittance Market for Rural Development
• Latin America and the Caribbean Remittance Industry Scorecard
• Hispanic Migrant Survey Report
• Financial Inclusion and Access to Financial Services for Remittance Receivers
• Survey on the market for remittances on the Czech Republic
• Contributing to the financial inclusion of transnational families: developing and disseminating financial and remittance literacy tools
• Remittances Task Force

PUBLICATIONS AND SURVEYS

• "Las repercusiones del terremoto sobre las remesas." Manuel Orozco, América Economía. January 18, 2010.
  
• "The least among us" Manuel Orozco, Foreign Policy. September 15, 2009.
  
• "Understanding the continuing effect of the economic crisis on remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean" Manuel Orozco, Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank. August 10, 2009.
  
• "La Economía Local y las Respuestas de los Gobiernos Ante los Envíos de Remesas en América Latina y el Caribe" Manuel Orozco, 2008. La Descentralización y los Desafíos para la Gobernabilidad Democrática. OAS. (English)
  
• "Hometown Associations and Development: Ownership, Correspondence, Sustainability and Replicability" Manuel Orozco and Kate Welle, 2006. Web Anthology on Migrant Remittances and Development: Research Perspectives. March, 2009.
  
• "Migration and remittances in times of recession: Effects on Latin American economies" Manuel Orozco, May 8, 2009.
  
• "Asegurando futuros: el interés de inversión y estrategia de comercialización para los salvadoreños en el exterior" Manuel Orozco, May 7, 2009.
  
• "Hometown Associations: Transnationalism, Philanthropy, and Development" Manuel Orozco and Eugenia García-Zanello, April 1, 2009.
  
• "The Cuban Condition: Migration, Remittances, and its Diaspora" Manuel Orozco, March 5 2009.
  
• Interview of Manuel Orozco with Robert Meins at OAS conference on remittances and decentralization, February 28, 2009.
• "Emerging markets for Rwanda: remittance transfers, its marketplace and financial intermediation" Manuel Orozco, February 21, 2009.
  
• EU Returns Directive: impact on migrants and remittances, Manuel Orozco and Elisabeth Burgess. E-Finance & Payments Law & Policy. February 2009.
  
• ¿Cuál puede ser el rol internacional para América Latina? Manuel Orozco. Foro Europa - América Latina. February 2009.
• Migración y Remesas en República Dominicana presentation, synopsis of survey results and complete survey results in Spanish. Manuel Orozco. December 12, 2008. Further analysis in AlMomento.net.
  
• Remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean: Their Impact on Local Economies and The Response of Local Government, OAS. Manuel Orozco. 2009. Spanish.
• Tasting Identity: Trends in Migrant Demand for Home-Country Goods, USAID. Manuel Orozco. November 2008. See summary here.
• Are trends in money transfers to Latin America shifting downward? Manuel Orozco. November 2008. Spanish version here.
• Tendencias Actuales en las Transferencias hacia Guatemala y su Intersección con las Finanzas Manuel Orozco. October 2008.
• Remittance transfers, its marketplace and financial intermediation in Uganda: preliminary findings, lessons and recommendations Manuel Orozco. October 2008.
• Mining Remittance Data: Practical Considerations on Survey Design and Administration. USAID. Bryanna Millis, Manuel Orozco, and Zaki Raheem. September 2008.
• Remittance Transfers to Armenia: Preliminary Survey Data Analysis Manuel Orozco. September 2008. Report can also be found here.
• Remittances and Microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Steps Forward on a Long Road Ahead Manuel Orozco. September 2008. Report can also be found here.
• Migración y Remesas en Honduras: Sinopsis de los resultados de la última encuesta sobre remesas y migración realizada en Junio 2008 por Borges & Asociados Manuel Orozco. August 2008.
• Lecciones Aprendidas y Posibilidades de Replicabilidad de Políticas y Leyes Sobre el Vínculo Entre Remesas y Desarrollo Manuel Orozco. August 2008.
• Planting the seeds of financial inclusion: financial literacy for remittance recipients in Moldova Manuel Orozco. June 2008.
• Remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean: Their Impact on Local Economies and the Response of Local Governments Manuel Orozco. June 2008 .Spanish version here.
• Latino migrants: A profile on remittances, finances, and health Manuel Orozco and Nancy Castillo. April 2008.
• The Nicaraguan diaspora: trends and opportunities for diaspora engagement in skills transfers and development Manuel Orozco. March 2008.
• Toward the Mainstream: current trends and dynamics of remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean Manuel Orozco. February 2008.
• Centroamérica: remesas, economía y las finanzas con aproximación al caso Nicaragüense Manuel Orozco. January 2008.
• Migración y Remesas en Nicaragua: Análisis y Resultados de la ultima encuesta sobre remesas y migración realizada en enero por M & R. Manuel Orozco. January 2008.

More program publications...

Dialogue events

Global Forum on Remittances 2009 and Remittances, Business Models and Technology Fair. Collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the African Development Bank (AfDB). Forum agenda, participant presentations, and other relevant information can be found here. Tunis, Tunisia. October 22-23, 2009.

Recent Trends in Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean - May 22, 2009.

Migration and Remittances in Times of Recession: Effects on Latin American Economies - March 8, 2009.

Remittances to Cuba hold steady, sources diverge - March 5, 2009

Digesting Nostalgic Trade: A Prequel to a Value Chain Approach - November 20, 2008. See presentation here.

Economic crisis just one of many intersecting variables determining remittance trends - November 10, 2008

Discussion on Recent Trends in Remittances to Latin America - June 12, 2008

Discussion on remittance flows to Latin America with members of Congress - Dialogue's Congressional Members Working Group meeting November 13, 2007

Discussion on Current Trends in Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean - September 19, 2007

Inter-American Dialogue Conference Report: Research on Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean -From day-long conference held March 14, 2007

Congressional Testimonies

Congressional testimony on "Remittances: Regulation and Disclosure in a New Economic Environment" (Webcast)
June 3, 2009

Testimony before the U.S. Congress and U.S. Helsinki Commission “Crossing Borders, Keeping Connected: Women, Migration and Development in the OSCE Region”
April 24, 2008 

Toward the Mainstream: Remittances and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
October 2, 2007
Testimony presented before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere at the hearing, "Leveraging Remittances for Families and Communities"

The Role of Remittances in Leveraging Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 
March 7, 2007
Testimony presented before the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade and Technology at the hearing, "The Role of Remittances in Leveraging Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean"

                                                      More testimonies...

Related resources

• Web Anthology on Migrant Remittances and Development: Research Perspectives. Social Science Research Council. March 2009 - March 2010.
  
• The Developmental Role of Remittances in U.S. Latino Communities and in Latin American Countries. Lindsey Lowell and Rodolfo O. de la Garza. June 2000.
• The Development of Home Town Associations in the United States and the Use of Social Remittances in Mexico. Rafael Alarcón. April 2000.
• Sending Money Home... for now: Remittances and Immigrant Adaptation in the United States. Louis DeSipio. January 2000.
• Do Government Programs "Crowd in" Remittances? J. Edward Taylor. January 2000.
  
• Migrant Remittances to Latin America: Reviewing the Literature. Deborah Waller Meyers. May 1998.