{"id":1100,"date":"2021-09-17T12:11:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalforumlac.org\/?post_type=event&p=1100"},"modified":"2022-09-06T02:11:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T02:11:29","slug":"manuel-orozco","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.globalforumlac.org\/2022\/en\/event\/manuel-orozco\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Orozco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manuel Orozco<\/strong> is senior fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue, and currently director of the Migration, Remittances, and Development program. He founded the Center for Migration and Economic Stabilization at Creative Associates International. He is a \u00a0Fellow for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, Senior Migration; Remittances Advisor for the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Dr. Orozco is also chair of Central America at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute at the U.S. Department of State. He also taught at American University, and George Washington University.<\/p>\n

He has theorized, conducted extensive research, policy analysis and advocacy on issues relating to economic development, global flows of remittances, and migration and development worldwide, and regional trends in Central America. His work has led to international policy and business initiatives leveraging these flows to build assets among families and migrants, strengthen market competition, and promoting innovative development policies. He works directly with migrant organizations and nationalities in several countries and provides advice on diaspora engagement and financial independence.<\/p>\n

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Some of his achievements include the design and implementation of a financial advising strategy that successfully motivates people to formalize their savings at financial institutions. The strategy has reached over half a million people in more than 15 countries. He has also introduced strategies on microfinance, and methods that link diaspora investments in their homelands.<\/p>\n

In 1999 he introduced a pricing methodology on remitting transaction costs (now adopted by the World Bank) and produces a scorecard on industry competitiveness in money transfers. His work has included the design of evaluation tools to determine a project\u2019s development impact. He works and monitors financial sectors in more than 50 countries. He has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

In addition, he has provided political analysis on Central America, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.\u00a0 He has written country reports for Freedom House and reviewed political trends since the democratic transition in Central America.<\/p>\n

He has testified every year before Congress and has spoken before the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n

Orozco holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Texas at Austin, masters in public administration and Latin American studies, and a BA in international relations from the National University of Costa Rica.<\/p>\n

Manuel Orozco has published widely on migration, remittances, Latin America, globalization, democracy, conflict in war torn societies, and minority politics. His publications include studies about the intersection between remittances and finances, financial literacy and development.\u00a0 He has analyzed and designed development strategies in more than 100 countries globally.<\/p>\n

His books include Centro Am\u00e9rica en la Mira: La migraci\u00f3n en su relaci\u00f3n con el desarrollo y oportunidades para el cambio<\/em>\u00a0(Ed. Teseo, 2015); Migrant remittances and development in the global economy <\/em>( Lynne Riener Spring 2013),\u00a0<\/em>Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe: migraci\u00f3n, remesas y desarrollo<\/em> (FLACSO, 2012), <\/em>Remittances: Global Opportunities for International Person-to-Person Money Transfers<\/em> (London: Lafferty Group, 2005) and International Norms and Mobilization for Democracy<\/em> (London: Ashgate Publishers, 2002).<\/p>\n

Journal and report publications include the following, “Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2014,” Orozco, Manuel, Laura Porras, and Julia Yansura, February 2015. “Understanding Central American Migration: The Crisis of Central American Child Migrants in<\/p>\n

Context,” Manuel Orozco, August 2014.\u00a0 \u201cEconomic Status and Remittance Behavior Among Latin American and Caribbean Migrants in the Post-recession Period,\u201d in Immigrant Vulnerability and Resilience<\/em>, M. Aysa-Lastra, L. Cacho\u00b4n, editors, Chapter 11, Manuel Orozco, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland: 2015. \u201cImpact of Remittances in Developing Countries,\u201d in A New Perspective on Human Mobility in the South, Jonathan Crush, Susanne Melde, John O. Oucho, editors, Chapter 5, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland: 2014.\u00a0 Migration & Development in Central America: Perceptions, Policies, and Further Opportunities\/Migraci\u00f3n y Desarrollo en Am\u00e9rica Central: Percepciones, Pol\u00edticas y Nuevas Oportunidades, by Manuel Orozco and Julia Yansura, November 2013. Is Legalization Possible? Trends and Political Mapping of Immigration in the House of Representatives<\/em>, Keeping the Lifeline Open: Remittances and Markets in Somalia<\/em>. \u00a0Future Trends in Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean<\/em>, 2012, Hacia un modelo de Alianzas por el desarrollo con la di\u00e1spora y el sector privado: la experiencia en educaci\u00f3n<\/em>, 2012; Remittance Recipients and the Present and Future of Micro-Entrepreneurship Activities in Cuba<\/em>, (2011); A Commitment Amidst Shared Hardship: Haitian Transnational Migrants and Remittances<\/a>, Journal of Black Studies<\/em>, \u00a0March 2011. \u00a0\u201cA Scorecard in the Market for Money Transfers: Trends in Competition in Latin America and the Caribbean (2010).\u201d \u201cMigration, Remittances and Assets in Bangladesh (2010).\u00a0 \u201cToward financial independence: Financial literacy for remittance senders and recipients\u201d (June 2010), \u201cRemittances and development: financial literacy in an international perspective,\u201d (May 2010), Remittances and Microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Steps Forward on a Long Road Ahead, (September 2008), \u201cPlanting the seeds of financial inclusion: financial literacy for remittance recipients in Moldova (June 2008): \u201cMaking the Most of Family Remittances.\u201d Second Report of the Inter-American Dialogue Task Force on Remittances. May 2007; \u201cMigrant Foreign Savings and Asset Accumulation.\u201d in Reducing Global Poverty: The Case for Asset Accumulation<\/em>, edited by Caroline O.N. Moser. Washington, DC: Brookings, 2007; \u201cCentral American Diasporas and Hometown Associations.\u201d Diasporas and Development<\/em>, edited by Barbara J. Merz, Lincoln C. Chen, and Peter F. Geithner. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007; with Katy Jacob and Jennifer Tescher \u201cCard-Based Remittances: A Closer Look at Supply and Demand.\u201d The Center for Financial Services Innovation, Chicago, IL: February 2007; \u201cGlobal Remittances and the Law \u2013 A Review of Regional Trends and Regulatory Issues.\u201d in International Migration Law: Developing Paradigms and Key Challenges<\/em>, edited by Ryszard Cholewinkski, Richard Perruchoud and Euan Macdonald. Cambridge University Press: January 2007; \u201cInternational Flows of Remittances: Cost, competition and financial access in Latin America and the Caribbean- toward an industry scorecard.\u201d Inter-American Development Bank: Washington DC, May 12, 2006; \u201cMarkets and Financial Democracy: The Case for Remittance Transfers.\u201d Journal of Payment Systems Law<\/em>, Vol. 1 No. 2, March\/April 2005, International\u00a0 Norms and Mobilization for Democracy<\/em> London: Ashgate Publishers, 2002, The Remittance Marketplace: Prices, Policy and Financial Institutions Washington, Pew Hispanic Center, June 2004, \u201cMexican hometown associations and development opportunities\u201d, in Journal of International Affairs, Spring 2004, vol. 57, no. 2.\u00a0 Worker remittances in international Scope<\/em> March 2003, \u201cGlobalization and Migration\u201d in Latin American Politics and Society<\/em> Summer 2002, The Impact of Migration in the Caribbean and Central American Region<\/em> FOCAL, Canada, 2003, \u201cThe marketplace of remittances and its changing dynamics\u201d and \u201cLatino Hometown Associations as Agents of Development in Latin America\u201d in Sending Money Home: Hispanic Remittances and Community Development, <\/em>De la Garza, Rodolfo,\u00a0 Lindsay Lowell. Rowman and Littlefield, 2002<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senior Fellow and Director of the Migration, Remittances, and Development Program for Latin America, Inter-American Dialogue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1101,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"event_cat":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalforumlac.org\/2022\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalforumlac.org\/2022\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalforumlac.org\/2022\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalforumlac.org\/2022\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalforumlac.org\/2022\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalforumlac.org\/2022\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_cat?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}