This project reviews previous projects designed to improve business performance and strengthen institutional capacity in standards, certification and accreditation for advancing competitiveness for SMEs in Latin America through international standards.

Remittances, the portion of migrant workers' earnings sent back home to their families, have been a critical means of financial support for generations. But, for the most part, these flows have historically been -hidden in plain view-, often uncounted and even ignored. All that is now changing...

Globalization trends require that the LAC region create sound financial systems, competitive markets, an efficient public sector, and an effective infrastructure and regulatory framework. Therefore, MIF must sufficiently focus its operations to maximize development impact.

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.

Fund managers in Latin America confront limitations in legal and regulatory frameworks that discourage risk capital investment. Although macroeconomic and market factors play an integral role, legal framework will also help promote financing through risk capital in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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.

Working with public, private, and nonprofit sector partners, MIF has invested in the development of skills standards and certification systems with fifteen projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The goal: to increase the competitiveness and productivity of workers and industries throughout...

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.

Presented the first paper on review of the need for a general capital increase of the ordinary capital and replenishment of the fund for special operations.