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Mona Serageldin researched and wrote the report “Migratory Flows, Poverty and Social Inclusion in Latin America”<\/strong> in collaboration with authors from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) in 2004. The 2004 paper was published as Chapter 7 in Urban Futures: Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction<\/em><\/strong> (Nabeel Hamdi, ed.). Sida partially funded the collaboration through a grant, with the purpose of documenting two additional case studies in Central America: Le\u00f3n, Nicaragua<\/strong> and San Salvador, El Salvador<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This project emerged from a previous study, funded by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, to document the impact of human migratory flows on across Central and South American nations. See related content in the I2UD Digital Library: \u201cReintroducing the Spatial Dimension in the Planning and Management of Latin American Cities,\u201d Lecture by Yves Cabannes<\/a> (Project ID: 2003_03_001).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Documents include a Proposal, Executive Summary, two Final Reports from February 2004 (CUDS) and August 2005 (I2UD), and a Bibliography in Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n Excerpt<\/p>
[Excerpt: Final Report, Executive Summary, “Migratory Flows, Poverty and Social Inclusion in Latin America,” February 2004]<\/strong>
1. Introduction.
“Current poverty reduction strategies in LAC (Latin American Countries) underestimate the impact of migratory movements and remittances on social inclusion and do not fully include migration as a component of their strategies.”
“Some Latin American municipalities have launched creative initiatives in this field and their experience is well worth reviewing. To date little documentation of these efforts has been made particularly in terms of assessing the performance of the methods used and the impact of the monitoring on local development policies and governance.”
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“Given the importance of migratory movements in Latin America, the findings will be of interest for local authorities as well as multinational and bilateral development organizations working in local development and poverty alleviation programs. This paper presents some preliminary findings of the study, which is still in progress, based on research and field documentation in Cuenca, Ecuador.”
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