Analysis of the relationship between remittances and the local economies in Central America, with special attention to Nicaragua and Guatemala. It also provides some policy recommendations to leverage and mitigate the impact of remittances.

Consultoria realizada por Analistas Financieros Internacionales para Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones sobre: Flujos de remesas a América Latina: Características del mercado de remesas y sus actores principales. Aspectos regulatorios relevantes para facilitar el rol de las remesas como...

Guatemala - Final public report about the Program for application of general principles for Latin American and Caribbean remittance market

Resultados y análisis de encuesta acerca de receptores de remesas en Mexico

Analysis of the relationship between remittances and the local economies in Central America, with special attention to Nicaragua and Guatemala. It also provides some policy recommendations to leverage and mitigate the impact of remittances.

Guatemala - Final public report about the Program for application of general principles for Latin American and Caribbean remittance market

Workers's remittances to Mexico represent one of Mexico's most important sources of foreign income, only second to petroleum sales. This paper attempts to measure the elasticity or responsiveness of healthcare use to remittances. Do remittances increase healthcare use by a large or a small...

This paper examines the impact of migration on education inequality in rural Mexico. Using data from the 1997 National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), we first examine the impact of migration on educational attainment for males and females aged 12-15 and 16-18. We then build on the...

En 2007 se inició un programa cofinanciado por el Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA) y el Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones del BID, con la asistencia técnica del Banco Mundial, con el propósito de asistir a los bancos centrales y demás autoridades de competentes de los...

In this paper we present evidence suggesting that international migrant remittances generally lead to improved developmental outcomes. Using a cross-section of Mexican municipalities in the year 2000, we show that increases in the fraction of households receiving international remittances are...