Program: Migration, Remittances & Development

Gabriela Castellanos

Gabriela Castellanos is a Honduran lawyer. Castellanos has served since December 2013 as the executive director of the National Anticorruption Council (CNA), a civil society organization in Honduras dedicated to studying, training, dissuading, denouncing, and combating corruption.

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The Marketplace for Money Transfers to the Dominican Republic: An Assessment

The following report is a country profile that analyses the money transfer marketplace to the Dominican Republic. In particular, the report looks at competition in the market. The report includes a general profile of the migrant population in several countries like the United States and Spain, characteristics of sending money as well as an in-depth analysis of the remittance marketplace.

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Mary Speck

Mary Speck is a senior advisor to the Latin America Program at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).

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Marina Olman-Pal

Marina Olman-Pal, co-chair of the firm’s Financial Regulatory and Compliance Practice, advises U.S. and international financial institutions on complex regulatory, compliance, and anti–money laundering matters across a wide range of industries.

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A Conversation on Family Remittances and Taxes

Join the Inter-American Dialogue on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, from 9:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET for a conversation on remittance transfers and the proposed Senate bill amendment that would impose a 3.5 percent tax on remittances sent by foreign-born individuals.

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Migrant Remittances to Central America and Options for Development

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. 

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