Migration and Development: Policy Coherence and Effective Partnerships

What are the costs and benefits of migration for developing countries? How can these flows be better organised to yield greater benefits for all parties concerned - migrant-sending countries, migrant-receiving countries, and the migrants themselves?

This session seeks to answer these questions, taking stock of what we know about the effects of migration on development, and distilling from that knowledge a set of policy recommendations for sending and receiving countries. Participants of this session will share their specific country or regional experiences to illustrate the mechanisms that link migration and development: labour-market effects, the brain drain, remittances, diaspora networks and return migration.

See the session report.


Chair:

Ibrahim Awad
International Labour Organization

Speakers:

Denis Drechsler
OECD Development Centre

Binod Khadria
School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India

Florin Vadean
Economics Department
University of Kent (tbc)

Bachir Hamdouch
Institut National de Statistique et d'Economie Appliquée (INSEA)
Rabat
Morocco
"Effective Partnerships for Migration Management: The case of Morocco"

Organizer:

OECD Development Centre
2, rue André-Pascal
75775 Paris Cedex 16
France