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Sending Money Home: An Analysis of the Remittance Market Between the United States and the Dominican Republic MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT FUND INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK November 23, 2004 Columbia University New York, NY |
08:30 Registration
Welcome and Introduction
9:00 Héctor Morales, Acting U.S. Executive Director, Inter-American Development Bank
9:10 Donald F. Terry, Manager, Multilateral Investment Fund
9:20 Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Conference Opening
9:30 The Honorable Rafael Alburquerque de Castro, Vice-President, The Dominican Republic
Results of the Survey
10:00 Sergio Bendixen, President, Bendixen and Associates
Results of the Survey On Financial Sector Mediation Of Remittance Flows
10:20 Lenora Suki, Associate Director, The Center on Globalization and Sustainable
Development, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
The Macroeconomic Determinants of Remittances in the Dominican Republic
10:40 Dr. Manuel Orozco, Senior Fellow, Inter-American Dialogue
Questions and Answers
11:15 Coffee Break
The Regulatory Framework for Remittances
11:30-12:15
Moderator: Fernando Jimenez-Ontiveros, Multilateral Investment Fund, IDB
Miguel Jiménez, Deputy Director of Balance of Payments, Department of International Affairs, Central Bank of the Dominican Republic
Samuel Frumkin, Community Affairs Expert, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Treasury
Diana Taylor, Superintendent, State of New York Banking Department
Best Practices for Remittance Transfers
12:15-1:15
Roberto Suro, The Pew Hispanic Center
Carmen Alvarez, Executive Vice-President, Banco BHD, S.A.
Lawrence Goetz, Asociación de Instituciones Rurales de Ahorro y Crédito, Inc.
Augusto Ruiz-Eldredge, Quisqueyana Remittances
Conclusion
1:15 Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Donald F. Terry, Manager, Multilateral Investment Fund
Signing of the MIF/BHD Project