Latin American Program in the News: Free-market solution to America's immigration dilemma
Program Director Cynthia J. Arnson is quoted in this article about the United State's role in rebuilding El Salvador.
"El Salvador needs people to rebuild the economy and provide education and job opportunities to keep people from joining gangs. According to the Central Bank of El Salvador it received $3.6 billion in remittances last year.
"As important as the remittances are to subsidize consumption it is not the same as creating productive capacity," Arnson said.
Yet this productive capacity can be created if President Obama and members of Congress work together to implement four simultaneous initiatives."
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The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more