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Development <div class="clear"></div> </div> <h1 class="title"> Migration and Development </h1>  <script type="text/javascript"> function toggleOverview() { var thetxt = jQuery(".toggle").html(); if ("Read More" == thetxt) { thetxt = "Read Less"; pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'read more click'); } else { thetxt = "Read More"; } jQuery(".content-trimmed").toggle(); jQuery(".content-full").toggle(); jQuery(".toggle").html(thetxt); } </script> <table style="width:100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td id="section-content" valign="top">  <div id="featured"> <img class="img-left-big" src="/web/20120102020345im_/http://www.cgdev.org/files/2669_image2_migration.jpg" alt=""/> <div class="content-trimmed"><p><strong>Migration and Development</strong></p> <div>While most of the rich-world migration debate focuses on how migrants affect the places they move to, CGD conducts rigorous, independent research to examine the effects of labor mobility on migrants themselves and their places of origin.</div></div> <div class="content-full" style="display:none"><p><strong>Migration and Development</strong></p> <div>While most of the rich-world migration debate focuses on how migrants affect the places they move to, CGD conducts rigorous, independent research to examine the effects of labor mobility on migrants themselves and their places of origin.</div> <div> </div> <div>People have always migrated to improve their lives. Today, movements from developing countries to other parts of the world are of intense interest to many policymakers, yet relatively little is known about the impacts of labor mobility on the people who move and their home societies. CGD works to address this problem by collecting and sharing new data and by bringing empirical results to a debate that has too often been conducted in an evidence-free zone. We then use these findings to identify ways in which rich-world immigration policy could be made more development-friendly. CGD research fellow Michael Clemens leads this work.</div> <p><strong>The CGD Commission on Migration Data</strong></p> <div>CGD is working to increase the availability of high-quality data on migration. In 2009, our Commission on Migration Data for Development Research issued <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422146/">Migrants Count: Five Steps Toward Better International Migration Data</a><u>.</u> The report details low-cost measures that countries and relevant international organizations can take to gather and share migration data to give researchers and policymakers a much clearer picture of who is moving where.</div> <p><embed style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 5px" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102020345oe_/http://www.youtube.com/v/WLoP9GalIHc&hl=en" width="318" height="248" quality="1" wmode="transparent" menu="menu" loop="loop" scale="ShowAll" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></p> <p><strong>Key Questions about Migration and Development</strong></p> <div>Much of the development-oriented research on labor mobility has focused on workers’ remittances and their transactions costs. While this work has been extremely valuable, the bulk of the development impact of labor mobility lies elsewhere, and remains poorly understood. Many questions remain open:</div> <div><span>·<span> </span></span>How can creative immigration policies reconcile the vast and mounting pressure for greater labor mobility with the strong objections voiced in many rich countries?</div> <div><span>·<span> </span></span>How should systems of higher education in sending and receiving countries change to suit a world in which professionals are increasingly mobile?</div> <div><span>·<span> </span></span>How can rich-country policies encourage the formation of commercial and intellectual links between low-income-country emigrants and their places of origin and increase the development benefits of such links?</div> <p><strong>Preliminary Answers</strong></p> <p><img class="bookcover right" height="156" alt="Let Their People Come" width="104" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102020345im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/covers/let_their_people_come.JPG"/></p> <div> <p>CGD research has begun to provide initial answers to these questions. Non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett, in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/10174/">Let Their People Come</a>, suggests concrete ways that a more development-friendly migration policy can be politically feasible. Devesh Kapur and John McHale gather evidence on development impacts of skilled-worker migration and place it within a clear framework in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/4415">Give Us Your Best and Brightest</a>.</p> <div>While migration has long been a central tool in the battle against global poverty and inequality, the heated political debate over immigration reform largely fails to recognize this. In <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16129/">Don't Close the Golden Door: Our Noisy Debate on Immigration and Its Deathly Silence on Development</a> , Clemens and co-author Sami Bazzi outline five major reasons why migration is a development issue today and suggest a policy agenda for the U.S. administration.</div> </div> <p><img class="bookcover left" height="188" alt="Give Us Your Best and Brightest" width="141" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102020345im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/covers/give_us_your_best.JPG"/>We aim to continually extend and refine our understanding of this critical topic through rigorous research conducted in cooperation with some of the world’s top migration scholars. We believe that good research begets good ideas, and good ideas can deliver a win-win-win proposition: for migrants, receiving countries, and sending countries.</p> <p>Learn more by watching Clemens’ video talk, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1423399/"><span>The Biggest Idea in Development that No One Really Tried?</span></a></p></div> <div><a style="float:right" class="more-link toggle" href="javascript:;" onclick="toggleOverview();pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'read more click');">Read More</a></div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="tabbed-navigation"> <div class="tabs"> <span class="tab newest active" rel="newest" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'newest');">Newest</span> <span class="tab popular" rel="popular" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'popular');">Popular</span> <span class="tab" rel="publications" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'publications');">Publications</span> <span class="tab" rel="experts" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'experts');">Experts</span> <span class="tab" rel="research" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'initiatives');">Initiatives</span>  <span class="tab" rel="multimedia" onmousedown="pageTracker._trackEvent('topic_page', 'tab click', 'multimedia');">Multimedia</span> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="tab-box newest active"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120102020345im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425586_image_CDI_2011_brief_thumb.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425586">Commitment to Development Index 2011</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 1, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>The Commitment to Development Index ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the 5.5 billion people living in poorer nations. 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In Fiji, according to a new CGD working paper by Satish Chand and CGD research fellow Michael Clemens, the sudden and massive departure of people with higher education... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120102020345im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/16560_image_hp_potus_cover_thumb.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16560/">The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 22, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President shows how modest changes in U.S. policies could greatly improve the lives of poor people in developing countries, thus fostering greater stability, security, and prosperity globally and at home. Center for Global... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16558/">Don't Close the Golden Door: Making Immigration Policy Work for Development (White House and the World Policy Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 22, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> International movements of people can spark and sustain the development process in poor countries, helping people climb out of poverty. Creating opportunities for poor people to improve their lives promotes our values, enhances our security,and restores our faltering image abroad. The next... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16352/">The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the U.S. Border - Working Paper 148</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 3, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Are your wages determined by what you know, or where you are? This paper estimates how the wages of workers in 42 developing countries would change if the same people could work in the United States. It uses a rich new database on over two million workers around the world. A worker from the... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16037/">The Commitment to Development Index for Africa: How Much Do the Richest Countries Help the Poorest Continent?</a> <span class="item-date"> - May 12, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> How committed are the world's richest countries to the development of Africa, the world's poorest continent? Rich countries are usually compared on how much foreign aid they give as a percentage of their GDP, but helping Africa involves much more than aid. CGD's Commitment to Development Index has... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15552/">Income per Natural: Measuring Development as if People Mattered More Than Places - Working Paper 143</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 13, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Data on the average income of a resident of Ecuador is easy to find. But until now there has been no data on the average income of a person born in Ecuador, regardless of where she or he lives. In this paper, research fellow Michael Clemens and non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett introduce a new... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120102020345im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/15154_image_girls_count.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15154/">Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 14, 2008</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The wellbeing of adolescent girls in developing countries shapes global economic and social prosperity -- yet girls' needs often are consigned to the margins of development policies and programs. This new report describes why and how to provide adolescent girls in developing countries a full and... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14716/">The Commitment to Development Index 2007 Report</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 25, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Each year since 2003, the Commitment to Development Index (CDI) has ranked 21 rich countries on their dedication (or not!) to policies that benefit the five billion people living in poor countries. The CDI moves beyond simple comparisons of aid funding and in so doing embodies the mission of CGD,... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13577/">Bilateral Guest Worker Agreements: A win-win solution for rich countries and poor people in the developing world</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 25, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Increased labor mobility offers potentially huge gains for the developing and developed world, but migration is massively unpopular in rich countries. In this CGD Brief, non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett lays out a solution that is beneficial to poor people and potentially politically acceptable... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13202/">Pathways Out of Poverty During an Economic Crisis: An Empirical Assessment of Rural Indonesia - Working Paper 115</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 14, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> How do people escape poverty? In this working paper, CGD senior fellow Peter Timmer and his co-authors describe pathways out of poverty in Indonesia from 1993 to 2000, a period of economic and political turmoil. They find that most rural poor people who escaped poverty did so without moving to... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13123/">Do Visas Kill? Health Effects of African Health Professional Emigration - Working Paper 114</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 9, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Large numbers of African nurses and doctors are emigrating to the U.S., U.K., Australia and other rich countries. These movements strain local health systems and deprive sick people of urgently needed care. Right? Think again. What if wages and working conditions in city slums and rural villages... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/12908/">New Data on African Health Professionals Abroad</a> <span class="item-date"> - Feb 26, 2007</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> In CGD working paper 95, research fellow Michael Clemens and Gunilla Petterrsson estimate the number of African-born doctors and professional nurses working abroad in a developed countries circa 2000 using destination-country census data. They then compare this to the stocks of these workers in... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120102020345im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/10174_image_let_their_people_come.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/10174/">Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 12, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This controversial book argues that irresistible demographic forces for greater international labor mobility are being checked by immovable anti-immigration ideas of rich-country citizens. Pritchett proposes breaking the gridlock through policies that support development while also being... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/9267/">New data on African health professionals abroad - Working Paper 95</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 11, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to rich countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain. Research on the issue has been hampered by lack of data. How many doctors and nurses have left Africa? Which countries did they leave? Where have they settled? To answer these... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2850/">Why Global Development Matters for the U.S.</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 15, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Development refers to improvements in the conditions of people’s lives, such as health, education, and income. It occurs at different rates in different countries. The U.S. underwent its own version of development since the time it became an independent nation in 1776. Learn more about Rich... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/6661/">Building and Running an Effective Policy Index: Lessons from the Commitment to Development Index</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 13, 2006</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> The Commitment to Development Index (CDI), which ranks 21 countries across six policy areas, is widely seen as the most comprehensive and substantive measure of rich country policies towards development. In response to requests from other would-be index builders, CDI architect David Roodman... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/4473/">The Global Migration of Talent: What Does it Mean for Developing Countries?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 13, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Human capital flows from poor countries to rich countries are large and growing. 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Best and Brightest addresses the migration of well-educated workers from... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120102020345im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/2986_image_Asia_farm_with_yoke.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2986/">Agriculture and Pro-Poor Growth: An Asian Perspective <br>- Working Paper 63</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 21, 2005</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> After two decades of neglect, interest in agriculture is on the rise. 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It presses for reform on a broad front with a renewed, more legitimate, and more effective United Nations as the overarching framework for global governance... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2840/">Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health (Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 30, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This Brief is based on the CGD book Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health. The book book features 17 success stories. These cases describe some large-scale efforts to improve health in developing countries that have succeeded - saving millions of lives and preserving the livelihoods... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2740/">Food Security in Indonesia: Current Challenges and the Long-Run Outlook - Working Paper Number 48</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 12, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper reviews research on the impact of rice prices on the poor, on real wages in rural and urban areas, and on the broader macroeconomic consequences for investments in labor-intensive manufacturing. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style=""> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120102020345/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2746/">Towards a New Consensus for Addressing the Global Challenge of the Lack of Education - Working Paper 43</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 29, 2004</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper is part of the Copenhagen Consensus process, which aims to assess and evaluate the opportunities available to address the ten largest challenges facing the world. 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