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Blog Post
February 19, 2024
One of the few silver linings from Brexit for the UK has been the increase in non-EU migration. But this has led to renewed concerns about a “brain drain”, the notion that the exodus of skilled workers from poorer countries will leave them unable to meet their own development goals. Yet these concer...
Blog Post
June 07, 2016
More than a million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe in 2015, with thousands dying in the attempt to cross by sea. EU development policy has swung into action, in an attempt to address the “root causes” of the movement of people. But this rapid reaction has led to some poor decisi...
Nov
18
2015
12:30—2:00 PM
October 21, 2015
In this CGD Europe Sandwich Seminar, Osea Giuntella presents results from a paper with Catia Nicodemo and Carlos Vargas Silva on the effects of immigration on waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Linking administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (200...
May
26
2009
8:30—6:00 PM
June 01, 2009
As the Obama Administration begins to consider the key issues of U.S. immigration reform this summer, the Center for Global Development (CGD) and the Center for International Development at Harvard University convened a research conference on May 26, 2009 with thought leaders from Harvard University...
New from CGD
September 18, 2006
CGD non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett argues in a new, bound-to-be-controversial book that increased labor mobility would do more for poor people in developing countries than aid, successful trade reform, and debt relief combined. Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Labor Mobility will ...
CGD in the News
October 25, 2005
CGD's recent publication, Give us Your Best and Brightest, was cited in this article appearing in Australia's The Age newspaper. The article also cited a new report by the World Bank, assessing the effects of international migration and labor movements according to the two reports.