
Remittance Costs: Latin America & the Caribbean
The Costs of Sending Money to Latin America and the Caribbean
The Costs of Sending Money to Latin America and the Caribbean
Migrant transnationalism, in addition to being an expression of culture, identity and love, is an important economic phenomenon.
This document offers an introduction to the migration dynamics in Guatemala and proposes an approach to leverage opportunities.
How do patterns of migration and remittances differ across regions? What kinds of frameworks support the contributions of remittances to local development?
Despite the economic importance of migration, Central American governments have lacked integral policies to leverage migration for development.
Regional development is the key for Argentina’s future. The new administration has developed long-term plans to eliminate poverty and inequality in Argentina. The priority is to generate efficient and sustainable programs by strengthening institutions, promoting dialogue and integration with provincial governments, and focusing on quality.
A compilation of the Dialogue’s reports, articles and presentations on the most important issues shaping Guatemala’s development.
A compilation of the Dialogue’s reports, articles and presentations on the most important issues shaping Costa Rica’s development.
A compilation of the Dialogue’s reports, articles and presentations on the most important issues shaping Nicaragua’s development.
A compilation of the Dialogue’s reports, articles and presentations on the most important issues shaping El Salvador’s development.
A compilation of the Dialogue’s reports, articles and presentations on the most important issues shaping Honduras’ development.
Since achieving independence in 1804 to become the world’s first free black state, Haiti has been beset by turbulent, often violent, politics and a gradual but seemingly unstoppable slide from austerity to poverty to misery.
Central America faces a wide range of challenges in the global context, of which organized crime, access to trade and financing, and outbound migration are a few. This is a compilation of the most relevant Dialogue’s reports on the region.
Honduras shows great disparities in education. Despite being one of the countries in the Central American region that spends the highest percentage of its national budget on education, it exhibits some of the lowest performance. The challenges that it faces are formidable, and include addressing illiteracy among rural populations, improving access to secondary school, increasing enrollment in post-secondary schools, and improving overall educational quality. In this brief, we review the educational landscape in Honduras, including literacy, K-12 education, and workforce development.
A compilation of the most relevant Dialogue’s articles, presentations and reports on Central America: its development challenges and policy options.