By Diógenes PinaSANTO DOMINGO, Sep 18 (IPS) - Civil society organisations suggest that a plan be designed so that the money sent home by Dominicans abroad, known as remittances, will be used to foment development instead of simply going towards daily expenses.
The idea is "to deepen public reflection and debate to optimise the impact of remittances on the development of the national economy," says a document by the Asociación Tú, Mujer ("You, Woman" Association), which is carrying out the Proyecto Remesas y Codesarrollo (Remittances and Co-development Project) under the sponsorship of international organisations. Legislators, ministers, the representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and delegates of civil society groups met Tuesday in a conference organised by the Association.
"We have to find mechanisms so that remittances are used more efficiently towards social development, and in the fight against poverty," Carmen Julia Gómez, the Association’s director of research and the head of the Remittances and Co-development Project, told IPS. [Read more]
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