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.

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

One-page 1999 map outlining remittance flows to Latin America and the Caribbean.

Results and analysis of a poll on remittance recipients in Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras)

One-page 2000 census map detailing by region the Latin American and Caribbean populations living in the US.

This presentation discusses the goals, priorities, and instruments of the Poverty and Social Protection Network, which promotes equitable, integrated and sustainable social policies and programs in the LAC region. The presentation also touches on the projects of the Regional Public Goods program...

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...

Japan, which has relatively higher paying jobs compared to North America, is becoming a preferred destination for Latin American migrants of Japanese descent, creating an important new remittance market.