Documents 

Each speaker may present documents, which will be uploaded to the Web site of the event. Participants may also submit additional written contributions for the discussions at the meeting.

The Permanent Secretariat will prepare a final report on the meeting and compile all written contributions of speakers and participants, which will be published on SELA’s Web page.

• Agenda
  SP/XXV-RDCIALC/DT N° 1-14

Base document

• Migration and remittances in Latin America: Trends, best practices and development experiences
  SP/XXV-RDCIALC/DT N° 2-14

• Speech by the Director of Relations for Integration and Cooperation of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), Juan Acuña, on behalf of the Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Roberto Guarnieri.
  SP/XXV-RDCIALC/Di N° 1-14

• Presentation of the document: “Cooperation and migrant’s remittances: Impact on savings, investment and development.” Manuel Orozco, SELA’s Consultant.

• Jesús Cervantes González, Coordinator of the Real Sector and General Principles for Remittances Programme at the Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA).

• Roberto de Michele, Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Guatemala.

• Matteo Mandrile, Project Officer of remittances, migrations and development. Regional Office for South America of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

• Thomas Wissing, Director of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Office for Mexico and Cuba.

• Argentina: Santiago Dematine, Official, General Direction of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship

• Dominican Republic: Ivette Subero Acosta, Monitoring Director of the United Nations System. Directorate General for Multilateral Cooperation of the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development (MEPyD).

• Colombia: Ivonne Forero Bejarano, Coordinator of “Colombia Nos Une” programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

• Guatemala: Rocío Molina, Coordinator of Internationalization of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of the Foreign Trade Support Programme.

• Mexico: Pedro Garza López, Head of the External Relations Unit at Banco de México.

• Perú: Contribution of the representative of the Republic of Peru.
• Luisa María Gamio Ferreyros, Minister of the Embassy of Peru in Guatemala
• Migration, remittances and developments in Peru
• Current trend of family remittances

• Guatemala: Sergei Walter, Assistant to the Executive Presidency of Banrural Financial Group.

• Guatemala: Byron Ayala, Manager Project of Microfranchise of World Vision.

• Dominican Republic: Luis Reyes Abreu, Vice-President of Banco VIMENCA.

• Mexico: José Luis Trigueros Islas, Director of Envíos Confianza.

• Mexico: José Luis Trigueros Islas, Director of Envíos Confianza

• El Salvador: Bertha Silvia Mena, Federation of Savings and Credit Cooperatives (FEDECACES)

• Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) - Nadia Cherrouk, Director of PADF in Haiti.

• Jamaica: Saffrey Brown, General Manager of the Jamaica National Building Society Foundation.

Support documents

Informe anual: estadísticas de remesas en la Comunidad Andina 2013 - Available only in Spanish

Remittances to Latin America and The Caribbean in 2012 across subregions
Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), Member of the IDB group 

Economic Status and Remittance Behavior Among Latin American and Caribbean Migrants in the Post-Recession Period
Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank

2013
Impact of the international economic situation on migration of skilled human resources from Latin America and the Caribbean
SP/CL/XXXIX.O/Di N° 20-13 - Available only in Spanish

2011
Migration of skilled human resources and remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean
SP/CL/XXXVII.O/Di No. 21-11 - Available only in Spanish

2010
Migration of skilled human resources and human development in Latin America and the Caribbean
SP/CL/XXXVI.O/Di Nº19 -10 - Available only in Spanish

2009
Regional Meeting on “Emigration of Skilled Human Resources from Latin American and Caribbean Countries”
Caracas, 17 and 18 June 2009

Final Report of the Regional Meeting on Emigration of Skilled Human Resources from Latin American and Caribbean Countries”.
SP/RR-ERHCPALC/IF-09

Emigration of skilled human resources from Latin American and Caribbean countries. Current trends and prospects
SP/RR-ERHCPALC/DT No. 1 – 09

2005
Publicación
“Las remesas de migrantes en América Latina y el Caribe: ¿Una alternativa de desarrollo
Caracas, SELA-CAF, 2005. 248 p. – Available only in Spanish

Migrations and remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean: Intra-regional flows and macroeconomic determinants
SP/CL/XXXI.O/Di No. 9-05

2004
Regional Seminar “Migrants’ remittances: An alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean?” Available only in Spanish
Caracas, 26 y 27 de julio de 2004

Final Report on the Regional Seminar “Migrants’ remittances: An alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean?”
SP/SRRM-UAALC/DF - 04

Current Trends in Migrants’ Remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean: An evaluation of their social and economic importance
SP/SRRM-UAALC/Di Nº 3/Rev. 1

2002
Migration and regional integration
SP/SMIR/Di Nº 9-02

Final Report of the Seminar on Migration and Regional Integration
SMIR/DF- 02