This paper examines the ways in which lower-income households obtain basic financial services in urban communities in Mexico and the United States. And it discusses the efforts that private sector and government organizations are making to lower the cost or improve the quality of those services....

The trend toward new tourism niches in Latin America and the Caribbean (hereafter, LAC) has brought benefits, but also costs to the region's indigenous peoples. As the World Bank social and environmental portfolios in LAC reveal, work with indigenous groups has frequently favored tourism as a...

As discussed in Hawkins and Mann (2007), the World Bank dropped its engagement in the tourism sector during the 1980s after twenty years of financing Bank's tourism projects which included infrastructure for resort sites, lines of credit for hotels, training, and some investment in hotels and...