Not only trade binds our economic futures to the regions development. More than 19 million U.S. citizens travel each year to the region as tourists or on business and more than 11 million Latin Americans will visit this nation. In addition. more than two million legal and illegal migrants will pass across our border to search for work and for brighter futures. We have compelling interests in assisting those nations in improving the health of their citizens. in educating their children and in providing a social infrastructure which will offer them hope in their own countries. The Administrator has noted that the USAID strategy of sustainable development will seek to strengthen marketoriented economies in the region. to urge sectoral policy reform that emphasizes participation and decentralization. to encourage involvement of nongovernmental organizations and microenterprises. to promote greater respect for labor rights and to seek removal of the constraints to broadbased participation in economic development.
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