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The High-Level Dialogue: Sizing up Outcomes, Implications, and Future Forms of Engagement on Migration and Development
The 2013 UN High-Level Dialogue on migration achieved a consensus declaration, signaling possible new multilateral cooperation on migration.
The Lampedusa Tragedy Prompts the Question: Does the UN have any impact on the world’s migrants?
As hundreds drowned near Lampedusa in 2013, a rare UN migration dialogue spotlighted the world body's limited but potentially growing role in global migration governance.
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.
The Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
Remittances globally totaled U.S. $401 billion in 2012, demonstrably reducing poverty and building human capital, but high costs and policy barriers limit their full development impact.
What We Know About Diasporas and Economic Development
Diaspora contributions to trade, investment, and skills transfer are real but hard to measure, and most governments lack the policies to leverage them systematically.
Diasporas and Development in Post-Communist Eurasia
In post-Communist Eurasia, millions became diaspora members not by migrating but through border shifts.
The Growing Linkages Between Migration and Microfinance
Microfinance and migration intersect in unexpected ways.
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.
Beyond Remittances: Reframing Diaspora-Driven Development in El Salvador
For Salvadoran diaspora associations, real development impact comes not from remittances but from how they engage as governance actors.
Engaging the Asian Diaspora
Asian diaspora programs lack the sustained, broad-based strategies needed to maximize diaspora contributions to development in countries of origin.
