Remittances 2005: Transforming Labor Markets and Promoting Financial Democracy: Statistical Comparisons

Abstract

For generations, millions of migrant workers have been sending billions of dollars back to their home countries to support their families. Remittances are widely recognized as critical to the survival of millions of individual families, and the health of many national economies throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.Population Statistics & Information Systems, Income, Consumption & Saving, Poverty, Labor Markets, Financial Democracy: Statistical Comparisons