Sending Money Home: Leveraging the Development Impact of Remittances

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Date issued
Oct 2006
Subject
Remittance
Category
Catalogs and Brochures
The Inter-American Development Bank's Multilateral Investment Fund began to intensively analyze the volume, transaction costs, and development potential of international remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2000. At that time, the phenomenon was literally "hidden in plain view", the subject of errors and omissions columns in international financial reports.