Brazil has made impressive strides as an arms producer and exporter. In an increasingly turbulent world, it can be expected to try to build on them.
A combination of factors led to an almost 5 percent decrease in remittances from the United States to Mexico in 2025; this decline, worth more than US$3 billion, affected close to half a million households.
Business, politics, and the economy are defined by both change and continuity, and the money transfer industry is not insulated from these trends. Although the fundamentals of growth are more or less the same—changing needs or behavior of senders and recipients, competition among financial intermediaries, policies and regulations, use of innovation and technology—there are several key developments within those that will shape this year’s performance at an estimated 2 percent growth.
This blog outlines how the flow of money to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2026 will likely increase slightly, driven by diminishing annual changes in transactions.
Este informe es un estudio de mercado sobre productos financieros en Guatemala, con un enfoque en el sector rural, en ocho departamentos. El informe ofrece una perspectiva macroeconómica del país y su relación con el financiamiento, acompañado con un diagnóstico del estado de la oferta y demanda se servicios y productos financieros en Guatemala.
This article examines the role of family remittances in Central America, analyzing two dimensions of the flows—macroeconomic and household—identifying the links between these flows and development through finance, and offering recommendations to leverage these flows to mitigate shortcomings in the region’s economic growth.
A proposed 5 percent tax on remittances from non–U.S. citizens could increase financial risk, reduce formal transfers, and strain economic and diplomatic ties between the United States and remittance-dependent countries.
This briefing offers an overview of the money transfer industry in the US-Latin America and Caribbean landscape, followed by a review of some of the challenges in 2025.
Los primeros 1.000 días de vida de un niño o niña, que abarcan desde la gestación hasta los dos años, son cruciales para su desarrollo.
Semillas de Apego is a community-based psychosocial care program of the Universidad de los Andes that seeks to protect the early childhood development and mental health of parents and caregivers.
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