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Caribbean & Central America - October 2012 (ISSN 1741-4458)

Remittances to Central America: emerging trends

In this special focus on future trends in remittances, Manuel Orozco, of the US-based think tank Inter-American Dialogue, explores factors that may affect remittance growth in the context of the global recession. Contrary to conventional wisdom, he finds that increases in employment only partially explain increases in remittances. Other factors include new money-sending technologies, skilled female migration, transnationalism, natural disasters brought on by climate change and increased financial inclusion.

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