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The External Affairs Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean
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| | Remittances and Development |
| | Lessons from Latin America |
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| | Workers' remittances have become a major |
| Tuesday, April | source of financing for developing |
| 8, 2008 | countries and are especially important in |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), |
| | which is at the top of the ranking of |
| Conference | remittances receiving regions in the |
| Center I1-200 | world. While there has been a recent |
| World Bank I | surge in analytical work on the topic, |
| Building | this book is motivated by the large |
| 1850 I (Eye) | heterogeneity in migration and |
| Street NW | remittances patterns across countries and |
| | regions, and by the fact that existing |
| For non Bank | evidence for LAC is restricted to only a |
| staff, please | few countries, such as Mexico and El |
| RSVP to | Salvador. Because the nature of the |
| infoshopevents@w | phenomenon varies across countries, its |
| orldbank.org | development impact and policy |
| | implications are also likely to differ in |
| | ways that are still largely unknown. This |
| | book helps fill the gap by exploring, in |
| | the specific context of Latin America and |
| | Caribbean countries, some of the main |
| | questions faced by policymakers when |
| | trying to respond to increasing |
| | remittances flows. |
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| | For more information, or to order the |
| | book, please click here. |
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INTRODUCED BY
Pamela Cox
Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Ms. Cox is the World Bank?s Vice President for the Latin America and
the Caribbean Region. She is a development economist and has held
several management positions in various countries and regions since
joining the Bank in 1980. Most recently, she was Director of
Strategy and Operations for the Africa Region, where she oversaw the
increase of Bank lending to the poorest African countries. Ms. Cox
also served as Country Director for South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho,
Namibia and Swaziland. She was Chief of the Country Operations
Division in East Asia, and served as Chief of the Agriculture and
Environment Operations in the same region.
PRESENTED BY EDITORS
Pablo Fajnzylber
Senior Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Mr. Fajnzylber is a Senior Economist in the Chief Economist?s Office
of the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank.
Previously, he worked at the Bank?s Finance and Private Sector
Development Department and at its Development Economics Research
Group. Mr. Fajnzylber has published in various professional journals
on a variety of development topics, including the economic impact of
workers? remittances, the dynamics of micro-enterprises in
developing countries, the impact of international trade on labor
demand, and the economic causes of violent crime. He has also
contributed to publications on informality and the determinants of
economic growth in Latin America.
J. Humberto Lopez
Lead Economist and Sector Leader, Latin America and the Caribbean
Region, World Bank
Mr. Lopez has been Lead Economist and Sector Leader for Poverty
Reduction and Economic Management for Central America at the World
Bank since February 2008. Previously, he was a senior economist in
the Office of the Regional Chief Economist, where he co-authored
reports on pro-poor growth and on remittances and development. He
worked on operational aspects of the Poverty Reduction Strategy
Paper and Heavily Indebted Poor Country initiatives at the Bank's
Central America department and on pro-poor growth and poverty and
social impact analysis in the Poverty department. Mr. Lopez has
published on issues related to fiscal policy, optimal currency areas
and real exchange rate misalignment, international business cycle
synchronization, armed conflict and development, and pro-poor
growth.
COMMENTS BY
Susan Minushkin
Deputy Director, Pew Hispanic Center
Ms. Minushkin joined the Pew Hispanic Center from the Centro de
Investigaciones y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, where
she was a professor of international studies and director of the
first ongoing public and elite survey in Mexico on foreign policy
and Mexican attitudes toward international issues. Her research
expertise includes Mexican public opinion and foreign policy, Latin
American politics, and economic globalization in developing
countries.
MODERATED BY
Sergio Jellinek
Communications Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean Region,
World Bank
Mr. Jellinek is the Communications Advisor for the Latin America and
the Caribbean Region at the World Bank, where he oversees
communications for the Bank?s entire action field within the region.
He is also a founder of COM+ Alliance, which is a partnership of
international organizations and communications professionals who are
committed to using communications to advance a vision of sustainable
development. He has extensive experience in developing countries
both as a working journalist and as an advisor to international
organizations.
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About the InfoShop
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serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
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