The Private Sector Mapping Project takes a closer look at the current motives, strategies, incentives, obstacles, and benefits as perceived by firms to enter untapped majority markets.

This report details remittance flows, their costs, and their impact throughout Latin America based on the comprehensive survey and analysis of reports from 19 Central Banks in the region.

Remittance volumes, transaction costs, profiles of senders and receivers, and recent Latin American project studies show how an international labor market closely connected to the globalization process delivers desperately needed resources to more than one hundred million families worldwide.

This analysis outlines current trends and issues regarding the Latin American and Caribbean remittance markets and provides a statistical summary of its size, its demographic characteristics, and its economic impact.

Presentation showing how relatively high salaries in Japan attract Latin American immigrants who seek entrepreneurial opportunities and a better quality of life.

Efforts by transnational families, money transfer and financial institutions, public authorities, civil society, and international organizations to improve regulatory and institutional frameworks are necessary to unleash the full development potential of remittances.

Japan, which has relatively higher paying jobs compared to North America, is becoming a preferred destination for Latin American migrants of Japanese descent, creating an important new remittance market.

This Technical Note was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the Caribbean Subregional Meeting celebrated on February 23rd and 24th, 2006 in Kingston, Jamaica. Effective Policies to Meet the MDG Agenda in the Caribbean

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the VI Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on December 9th and 10th, 2003. Prepared by countries. Long term approach. Broad consultation process. Quantitative goals with...

The strategy document was favorably reviewed by the IDB Board of Executive Directors on July 23, 2003. The objective of this strategy is to establish the basic concepts that should guide Bank operations with regards to modernization of the State.