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The Emigration of Health-Care Workers: Malawi’s Recurring Challenges
Malawi’s effort to stem health workers’ emigration was helped by raising salaries and increasing training, but other challenges remain.
Building Skills in North and Central America: Barriers and Policy Options toward Harmonizing Qualifications in Nursing
Nurse qualification harmonization can ease North American shortages and cut brain waste, but regulatory gaps and credential barriers need political will to overcome.
Women’s Labour Migration from Asia and the Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges
Female migrants in the Asia-Pacific increasingly migrate independently. Skills mismatch and sector concentration limit their contributions and well-being.
The 2014 Global Forum on Migration and Development: Setting the Agenda for International Cooperation
A call/webinar focused the 2014 Global Forum on Migration and Development: its agenda, the policy areas that seem ripe for action, and what impact the discussions will have on the post-2015 development agenda.
What We Know About Migration and Development
The migration-development link is well evidenced but weakly governed, and most countries still treat emigration as a drain rather than a potential development asset.
What Do We Know About Skilled Migration and Development?
Brain drain restrictions harm migrants and origin countries without documented benefits; bilateral skill-flow partnerships offer a better path.
The Evidence Base for October’s High-Level Dialogue: What We Know About Migration & Development
This conference provides an assessment of what we have learned about the relationship between migration and development in the past decade—including the gains made through six years of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD)—and identifies key areas that are ripe for action.
Engaging the Asian Diaspora
Asian diaspora programs lack the sustained, broad-based strategies needed to maximize diaspora contributions to development in countries of origin.
U.S. Secretary of State’s Global Diaspora Forum: Moving Forward by Giving Back
The second annual Global Diaspora Forum, hosted by the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, focused on how new technology can empower and increase diaspora philanthropy, volunteerism, social entrepreneurship, and innovation. MPI was the knowledge partner for the forum.
Asia-Pacific Launch of Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development
A discussion on diaspora engagement tied to the publication of an IOM-MPI handbook for policymakers and others seeking to engage their diasporas meaningfully.
