This paper outlines elements of demand for financial services among recent Latino immigrants, summarizes key factors contributing to their financial segregation, and describes products, services and administrative practices that have been used successfully by depository institutions. Throughout...

Results and Analysis of a poll in the U.S. on immigrants remittances senders.

Analysis in four Central American and Caribbean countries (El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Guatemala) of the government involvement in promoting an enabling environment conducive to economic exchange between immigrants residing in the United States and their homeland.

Results and analysis of a poll of major remittance senders and a geographic map of the origin of remittances by state in the continental United States.

Results and analysis of a poll of major remittance senders and a geographic map of the origin of remittances by state in the continental U.S.

The paper presents an approach to quantitative estimation of socio-economic benefits from oil extraction (in the US). The approach explicitly distinguishes the contribution of non-institutional and institutional factors. Calculations show that in the United States the influence and dynamics of...

The relative impacts of the monetised and non-monetised deficit on output and inflation in the United States are assessed using annual data for the 1923-1982 period. With Federal Reserve purchases of government debt serving as a measure of monetisation, the results of Granger causality tests...

Provides a comparative analysis of wage policies in the public sector of six OECD countries. Examines recent trends in reforms to the wage payment systems.