Daring the Difference: The Three L's of Women's Empowerment. Speech delivered by IMF Managing Director Christine …

labor, improved family benefits, subsidized child-care, other social benefits that increase the net return to women's work …, and incentives for businesses to encourage the hiring of women …

empowerment of women (the third MDG) and the special problems of fragile states, where extreme poverty is increasingly … equality and the empowerment of women are central to the development agenda. This is because gender equality makes good …

payments, remittances, and securities settlement processes in El Salvador, based on international standards and best practices …

an important source of revenue. It also analyzes recent developments and the outlook for remittances to Kiribati, which …

worker remittances. It addresses the many common policy challenges facing Central American countries--Costa Rica, El Salvador …

changing structure of Cape Verde’s balance-of-payments financing calls for a closer look at the volatility of remittances and … their role as an absorber of economic shocks. The paper finds that compared with other external inflows, remittances … seems to be gradually fading, and remittances are becoming increasingly procyclical …