Financing Sustainable Energy through Remittance Flows in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Author
Armacost, Nicola;
López de Llergo, Guadalupe;
Date
Dec 2009
The goal of this market research was to determine the feasibility of promoting the use of remittances as a means to purchase clean energy. The project was designed to test the attractiveness to immigrants in more developed countries (the United States) of linking their remittance flows to the purchase of clean energy technologies in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.