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Title: Salvadorans Overseas: The Foundation of a Pro-Poor Growth Strategy
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Publication Year: 2003
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Abstract: El Salvador is highly unusual among developing countries in its number of overseas migrants relative to the national population: at least one in seven Salvadorans lives outside of the country, primarily in the United States. Estimated total personal income of Salvadorans living in the United States was $13.3 billion in 2001, roughly equal to El Salvador’s GDP in that year.1 These overseas earnings bring substantial benefits to migrants’ origin families and communities via remittances, which has amounted to 14% of Salvadoran GDP in recent years. The overseas Salvadoran community can be one of the cornerstones of a pro-poor growth strategy. Migrants typically come from more disadvantaged Salvadoran households, specifically those with less-educated heads and those in rural areas. For this reason, policies that assist overseas migrants, facilitate remittances, and provide investment opportunities for remittances will disproportionately benefit poor and disadvantaged Salvadoran families. This report begins with a broad picture of aggregate changes in migration . . .
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Authors: Yang, Dean
Publisher: University of Michigan
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other
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