Documents et rapports

Informal Employment in Malaysia: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Reform (anglais)

This report aims to narrow the knowledge gap on informal employment in Malaysia, with the ultimate objective of suggesting policy recommendations to strengthen the protection and productivity of informally...

Learning from Korea’s Labor and Migration Systems : Knowledge Exchange with the Government of Nigeria (anglais)

Nigeria is the largest country in Africa, accounting for 20 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa. It is projected to be the third most populous country in the world by 2040. Therefore, her prosperity...

Covid-19 Impact on Korea’s Employment Permit System (EPS) (anglais)

Pacific Island Countries in the Era of COVID-19 : Macroeconomic Impacts and Job Prospects (anglais)

Pacific Island Countries (PICs) face strong headwinds from the COVID-19 crisis, despite to date having experienced few cases of COVID-19 domestically. Unlike the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, this crisis...

Pacific Labor Mobility, Migration and Remittances in Times of COVID-19 : Interim Report (anglais)

The COVID-19 crisis is likely to severely impact labor mobility and diaspora groups from the Pacific, with consequent reductions in the value of remittances. Many Pacific workers find employment in Australia...

Using Remittance Transaction Data for Timely Estimation of the Foreign Worker Population in Malaysia (anglais)

Malaysia has been grappling with understanding how many foreign workers reside in the country and thus faces challenges in formulating evidence-based foreign worker policies. This paper uses micro-level...

Assessing the Vulnerability of Armenian Temporary Labor Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic (anglais)

This paper attempts to assess the vulnerability of Armenian temporary international labor migrants and their families to the labor market challenges posed by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The authors...

Assessing the Vulnerability of Armenian Temporary Labor Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic (arménien)

This paper attempts to assess the vulnerability of Armenian temporary international labor migrants and their families to the labor market challenges posed by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The authors...

Using Remittance Transaction Data for Timely Estimation of the Foreign Worker Population in Malaysia (anglais)

Malaysia has been grappling with understanding how many foreign workers reside in the country and thus faces challenges in formulating evidence-based foreign worker policies. This paper investigates how...

Who is Keeping Score? Estimating the Number of Foreign Workers in Malaysia (anglais)

Malaysia has experienced a rise in foreign labor inflows in response to steady economic expansion and demographic changes. The foreign workforce has been hovering around 15 percent of the total labor force...

Development Digest : Navigating the New Normal (anglais)

Malaysia is no stranger to external shocks affecting its macroeconomy. Over the past two decades, it was buffeted by the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis (AFC), the 2001 global slowdown after 9/11, and the...

Papua New Guinea Economic Update : Facing Economic Headwinds (anglais)

Papua New Guinea’s economy continues to face economic headwinds resulting from global and domestic economic uncertainties. PNG’s real GDP, despite rebounding to 5.6 percent in 2019, is expected to fall...

Armenia : Better Understanding International Labor Mobility (anglais)

Armenia has experienced massive outflows of its people over years. Emigrants’ share of the Armenian population stood at approximately thirty-two percent in 2017, according to migration data from the United...

Armenia : Better Understanding International Labor Mobility (arménien)

Armenia has experienced massive outflows of its people over years. Emigrants’ share of the Armenian population stood at approximately thirty-two percent in 2017, according to migration data from the United...

Malaysia - Estimating the Number of Foreign Workers : A Report from the Labor Market Data for Monetary Policy Task (anglais)

Malaysia has experienced a rise in foreign labor inflows in response to steady economic expansion and demographic changes. The foreign workforce has been hovering around 15 percent of the total labor force...

Bilateral Arrangement of Temporary Labor Migration : Lessons from Korea’s Employment Permit System - Main Report (anglais)

The number of individuals who have crossed borders has mushroomed over recent years. The phenomenon of international migration, however, is heterogeneous in terms of the underlying motives and aspirations...

Bilateral Arrangement of Temporary Labor Migration : Lessons from Korea’s Employment Permit System - Policy Brief (anglais)

Despite a moral argument for the need to embrace refugees and other migrants fleeing dire conditions of war, conflict, violence, oppression, and extreme poverty, large influxes of migrants tend to reinforce...

Migration and Remittances for Development in Asia (anglais)

Asia and the Pacific region experienced a dramatic rise in migration during the last few decades. The wave of migration increased from the 1970s when the oil price surge provided the impetus for the oil-producing...

Migration and remittances : recent developments and outlook (anglais)

Using newly available census data, the stock of international migrants is estimated at 247 million in 2013, significantly larger than the previous estimate of 232 million, and is expected to surpass 250...

Philippines quarterly update : sustaining growth in uncertain times (anglais)

After a strong rebound in 2010, Philippine economic growth slowed by more than half to 3.6 percent in the first three quarters of 2011. Slower third quarter (Q3) growth of 3.2 percent was the result of...