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Learn about Local Labor Market Assessments and how youth-serving organizations can use such assessments in their work. Watch the recording below: 

Remittances provide a critical source of income for hundreds of thousands of Honduran households. Honduran migrants sent over $2.96 billion in remittances in 2012, accounting for 15.7 percent of the country’s GDP. This FIELD Report explores the role of remittances along Honduras’ Corredor Seco (“Dry Corridor”), a geographic region in Western and Southern Honduras stretching from Guatemala to Nicaragua along the El Salvador border.

The related resources below are products of the "Financing Value Chains" session of USAID's Meeting the Challenges of Value Chain Development: A Learning Event. Session Description:

This thesis highlights the unintended consequences of CCT programs. It also attempts to identify the causal pathways that led to the implementation of targeted, conditional cash transfer programs in sixteen countries in Latin America.

This issue features an analysis of Cuba, Western Union’s thoughts on public-private partnerships, and new research on how skilled migrants promote home country development.

The effects of the global economic recession on remittance flows.

Worldwide trends in remittance flows.

Census information related to State-Owned Retail Banks across the globe conducted in 2004.