Qatar's winning World Cup bid is a win for migrants
I was in Dubai last week when the news broke about Qatar's World Cup bid. Qatar winning the vote to host World Cup in 2022 will produce significant increases in migration flows from, and remittance...
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Will their parents’ DREAM come true?
Photo: istockphoto.comSince 2001, the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (“DREAM Act”) has been discussed in the congressional sessions without success. On December 8th, the fifth...
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Passions Fuelling Interests: A Portfolio Approach to Diaspora-Home Country...
Photo:Istockphoto.comFor 20 years, BP Agrawal led research and development at such companies as General Dynamics, ITT, GTE, and Hughes, helping take new technologies from lab to marketplace. US-based...
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How does migration shape economic and social development?
Migration has a profound impact on the lives of the migrant households, but also their societies are shaped by the cumulative effects of labor mobility and consequently remittances. Literature...
View ArticleLDC IV Conference calls for facilitating migration and remittance flows, and...
The program of action of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, 9-13 May 2011 explicitly calls for reducing remittance costs and improving the development...
View ArticleRussia’s Migration Reforms – Learning to look at the Glass Half Full
The more I work on migration issues, I have come to realize the uniqueness of the CIS region migration phenomena. Migration in what is currently called the CIS region (the former Soviet Union) includes...
View ArticleRemittances Rebound but Pressures Persist
Remittances, or the money migrant workers send home to their countries of origin, are finally recovering to pre-crisis levels. In 2010, remittance flows to developing countries reached $325 billion,...
View ArticleThe ECA diaspora can contribute to development
At approximately 46 million, the diaspora population originating from the ECA (Europe & Central Asia) countries is the largest of all the development regions. Over ten percent of the population of...
View ArticleEthiopia’s new diaspora bond: will it be successful this time?
According to the latest issue of the Economist, diaspora bonds an idea worth trying. Ethiopia recently announced the launch of its second diaspora bond: “Renaissance Dam Bond”.The proceeds of the bond...
View ArticleNew journal: Migration and Development
It is a pleasure to receive the inaugural issue of a new journal Migration and Development published by Routledge. While many journals are publishing articles on migration and development and a few are...
View ArticleKNOMAD launches international logo competition
Work on establishing the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) is going on at full speed. A key part of that work is to create a solid and strong identity for KNOMAD....
View ArticleMigration is Development: Sutherland op-ed on migration and post-2015...
In the run up to the UN High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Development that will take place in October 2013, there is a lot of discussion among migration experts on how migration might feature in the...
View ArticleAnti-Money Laundering Regulations: Can Somalia survive without remittances?
Remittances have been the main source of foreign exchange supporting Somalia during the conflict for the last twenty years. A recent IMF fact-finding mission to Somalia found that about $2 billion in...
View ArticleMigration, Security and Development: Understanding the Linkages
Migration, security, and development are inextricably linked. Understanding these linkages is important to correct public misperceptions as well as promote more effective policies; but they have...
View ArticleWill there be policy coherence between the FfD Action Agenda and the Post...
I attended the FfD Conference where the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) was adopted. Migration and remittances were positively included in the outcome document. However, it will be important to...
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