Documents et rapports

High-Skilled Migration from Myanmar : Responses to Signals of Political and Economic Stabilization (anglais)

In recent years, Myanmar has witnessed considerable economic and political instability, leading many young people, particularly the higher-skilled, to consider migrating abroad for improved prospects...

Pakistan - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Human Capital Investment Project : Indigenous People Plan for Basic Health Unit in Bumburet  (ourdou)

The development objective of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Human Capital Investment Project for Pakistan to improve availability, utilization, and quality of primary healthcare services and elementary education services...

Expanding Legal Migration Pathways from Nigeria to Europe : From Brain Drain to Brain Gain (anglais)

The world is currently at a crossroads. Low- and middle-income countries such as Nigeria are seeing rapid growth in their working-age populations. Yet often, these increasingly educated and skilled young...

România - Politica Urbană : Livrabilul 1. Document Însoțitor 4 : Document Justificativ - Schimbări Demografice în România : Factori, Tendințe și Previziuni despre Viitor (Roumain)

O sută şaizeci din cele 319 localităţi urbane ale României au un potenţial demografic extrem de limitat şi aproape sigur se vor micşora în următorul deceniu. Aceștia sunt în curs de ruralizare, suferă...

Romania - Urban Policy : Output 1. Companion Paper - 4 : Support Paper - Demographic Change in Romania : Factors, Trends and Projections for the Future (anglais)

One hundred sixty of Romania's 319 urban localities have an extremely limited demographic potential and are almost certain to shrink in the coming decade. They are undergoing ruralization, suffering due...

The Economics of International Student and Scholar Mobility : Directions for Research (anglais)

International trade in higher education services in the form of international student mobility has increased sharply since the 1960s and especially from Eastern Europe and Central Asia since the fall of...

Cambodia - KH-HE Quality and Capacity Improve Proj (anglais)

Managed labor migration in Afghanistan : a brief review of the academic migration literature (anglais)

This paper presents key findings on the international experience with migration, focusing on the implications for a developing nation that is a country of origin. The paper identifies several areas of...

Migration and cross-border financial flows (anglais)

Migration facilitates the flow of information between countries, thereby reducing informational frictions that potentially hamper cross-country financial flows. Using a gravity model, migration is found...

Labour mobility : the ten billion dollar prize (anglais)

This is a background paper to the Pacific Possible report. The paper proposes a series reforms to enhance labor mobility opportunities for Pacific Island countries. Such reforms would result in a triple...

Shaping the future : a long-term perspective of people and job mobility for the Middle East and North Africa (Vol. 3 of 3) : Background papers (anglais)

The objective of this study is to provide a long-term perspective for the ongoing policy dialogue on the management of labor migration in Europe and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. It...

Intentions to return : evidence from Romanian migrants (anglais)

Romania faces an acute population crisis with an aging workforce and an increased number of emigrants particularly from the young, highly educated/skilled population. This paper uses a new cross-sectional...

A global assessment of human capital mobility: the role of non-OECD destinations (anglais)

Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the first...

Human capital flight : stratification, globalization and the challenges to tertiary education in Africa (anglais)

A recent remark by the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration (IOM), captioned African brain drain robs continent of future perhaps best captures the sentiment on the human capital outflow...

Congo, Democratic Republic of - Public Service Reform and Rejuvenation Project : chair summary (anglais)

Modeling the effects of physician emigration on human development (anglais)

This paper quantifies the effects of physician emigration on human development indicators in developing countries. First, the geographical distribution and evolution of physician brain drain is documented...

North-South trade-related technology diffusion and productivity growth : are small states different? (anglais)

The economies of small developing states tend to be more fragile than those in large ones. This paper examines this issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of education and North-South trade-related...

Wage effects of high-skilled migration : international evidence (anglais)

The international migration of high-skilled workers may trigger productivity effects at the macro level such that the wage rate of skilled workers increases in host countries and decrease in source countries...

How can talent abroad help reform institutions at home : A study of Russian technological diaspora (anglais)

Russia’s science and technology diaspora is too visible and successful to evade attention from home. However, the public debate in Russia so far has been focused almost exclusively on return migration...

Knowledge Change Program (KCP) perspectives : putting knowledge to work (vol. 1, no. 3) (anglais)

This brief includes the following headings: access to finance: pioneering research on the importance of financial inclusion for poverty reduction; and international migration, remittances and development...