The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora?
Extensive thought has been devoted to aid and development and to migration and development. We have thought less however about whether migration could replace development aid, how far and in what...
View ArticlePrejudice and Immigration
Guest post by Paolo Giordani and Michele Ruta*Immigration policies are often driven by prejudices. In a recent paper, we argue that immigration prejudices in receiving economies tend to be...
View ArticleMigration and Development: A View from the Gulf
I was recently asked to provide opening remarks at a landmark conference on labor mobility and development sponsored by the Ministry of Labor of the United Arab Emirates (with several partners...
View ArticleGender and migration
Last week we heard an excellent presentation of a report - Girls on the Move: Adolescent Girls & Migration in the Developing World - recently published by the Population Council. The topic of...
View ArticleGrowing role of diaspora in development discussed at the Ministerial...
On June 18 -19, I attended the Diaspora Ministerial Conference on the theme “Diasporas and Development: Bridging between Societies and States” organized by the International Organization for Migration...
View ArticleNigeria is recruiting financial advisers for a $100 mn diaspora bond
The Financial Times on August 28th carried Nigeria’s request for proposal for potential financial advisers for a $100 million diaspora bond. To my knowledge, after Israel, this is the first diaspora...
View ArticleThere is an urgent need to address migration within the development community
Migration provides a fast path to poverty reduction, perhaps a faster path than that offered by trade, capital flows and technology transfer. Yet, it remains ignored, its potential untapped by the...
View ArticleRemittances to the Rescue!
These are tough time for many emerging markets and developing countries. The international capital flows cycle seems to have been in reverse gear, throwing many countries off guard. As the global risk...
View ArticleKnowledge Delivery on Migration: Lessons from Europe and Central Asia (ECA)
The call for innovation in assembling and sharing global knowledge has become louder, since World Bank President Jim Kim’s assumption of office. Interestingly, however, there are many nascent and...
View ArticleVisualizing Global Remittances – Big Data Mapping of Bilateral Flows
Global flows of cross-border remittances exceed $500 billion in money transfers across a dizzying array of bilateral corridors. With over 200 countries, send-receive combinations exceed forty...
View ArticleLampedusa – the Shadow under the Lamp
“In Lampedusa ten days ago, the air was not only full of the stench of the decaying bodies of drowned Africans -- men, women, and children -- it reeked of hypocrisy,” writes Uri Dadush in...
View ArticleUS Remittance Rule takes effect
with Ervin DervisevicThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) final International Remittance Rule (“Remittance Rule”) became effective on October 28, 2013.In the past, consumers sending money...
View ArticleThe Proposed Tax on Remittances will Drive Flows Underground
Recently, some news outlets in the Gulf region have hinted at the possibility of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) government imposing a tax on remittances. In the GCC countries foreign workers...
View ArticleU.S. Foreign-born population continues to increase
The foreign-born population of the United States continues to increase according to new data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). According to the ACS, the U.S. foreign-born...
View ArticleAsylum from climate change?
(In observance of the International Migrants Day on December 18)You probably do not spend much time contemplating leaving your country of birth, your home, your family, your community and your job...
View ArticlePolicy Coherence on Migration and Development
(In observance of the International Migrants Day on December 18)Achieving policy coherence regarding migration and development requires more effective data, analysis, monitoring and evaluation of the...
View ArticlePeople's IDA: Leveraging Migration for Development Financing
(In observance of the International Migrants Day)We have just received the good news that IDA17 has received a record $52 billion in financing over the next three years. Securing these donor...
View ArticleUnrealized Potential: Women Working Abroad
(In observance of the International Migrants Day)Gender discrimination, combined with migrant status, can make access to appropriate employment harder for female migrants. Employment tends to be...
View ArticleLow-skilled labor migration: Korea’s Employment Permit System
(In observance of the International Migrants Day on December 18)In response to looming labor shortages in the so-called “3-D” industries (difficult, dangerous, dirty), Korea has allowed the entry of...
View ArticleConnecting the Diasporas in Singapore
(In observance of the International Migrants Day, Dec 18)While diasporas by country of origin are typically bundled together in broadly held conceptions, they are not monolithic, and are separated by...
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