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Leveraging Remittances for Development
Remittances to developing countries finance education, health, and small business while reducing poverty. Policies seeking to reduce transfer costs would promote these outcomes.
Circular Migration and Development: Trends, Policy Routes, and Ways Forward
Circular migration policies fall short of achieving development goals. Success requires voluntary return, investment-friendly origin countries, and private-sector engagement.
Darfur Situation Worsens, Violence Spreads to Chad
Darfur's violence spread into Chad in 2006, raising the refugee count to 218,000 and internally displacing 90,000 people in Chad.
From A Zero-Sum to a Win-Win Scenario? Literature Review on Circular Migration
Circular migration holds real development potential, but realizing win-win outcomes depends on conditions that research has only begun to map.
Remittances and Development: Trends, Impacts, and Policy Options, A Review of the Literature
Remittances show real development promise, but critical knowledge gaps persist, including basic questions such as who remits, in what quantities, and through which channels.
Burkina Faso: Testing the Tradition of Circular Migration
With one in five Burkinabè living abroad, the country's colonial-era migration patterns face new strains.
Ghana: Searching for Opportunities at Home and Abroad
Ghana's diaspora of up to 4 million as of the mid-1990s remitted $1 billion in 2004, but the emigration of skilled professionals remains a challenge.
Characteristics of the African Born in the United States in 2000
The African-born U.S. population more than doubled from 1990 to 2000, reaching 880,000; more than two in five adults held college degrees, nearly twice the foreign-born average.
The New 'Boat People': Ensuring Safety and Determining Status
This report examines the approaches to interception and rescue of “boat people,” and evaluates their distinct humanitarian needs as well as possible solutions to maritime migration.
Emigration, Brain Drain and Development: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
While emigration may be beneficial in some cases, unhindered high-skilled emigration, particularly in the case of sub-Saharan Africa, can have disastrous consequences for its development.