Russia’s Migration Reforms – Learning to look at the Glass Half Full
The more I work on migration issues, I have come to realize the uniqueness of the CIS region migration phenomena. Migration in what is currently called the CIS region (the former Soviet Union) includes...
View ArticleThe ECA diaspora can contribute to development
At approximately 46 million, the diaspora population originating from the ECA (Europe & Central Asia) countries is the largest of all the development regions. Over ten percent of the population of...
View ArticleAre migrants more likely than nationals to be unemployed during economic crisis?
There has recently been heated debate regarding migrant employment behavior in host countries during and after economic crises. The popular view is that migrants have an incentive to remain unemployed...
View ArticleRemittances in Europe and Central Asia (ECA): The medium term outlook is not...
Thanks to Dilip Ratha and his team at the World Bank, we have an update on global remittance trends. Since it came during Thanksgiving week in the US, some people may have missed interesting highlights...
View ArticleThe malaise of demographic dynamics in ECA: Is Migration a saving grace?
In the Europe and Central Asia (ECA), populations and labor forces are shrinking because of below-replacement-level fertility, aging populations and high dependency ratios, high mortality in much of...
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Africa needs more knowledge not just more money and projects
It is now widely understood that achieving a sustained acceleration of GDP growth over the long term is a prerequisite for eradicating mass poverty. In most developing countries, fiscal policies,...
View ArticleKnowledge Delivery on Migration: Lessons from Europe and Central Asia (ECA)
The call for innovation in assembling and sharing global knowledge has become louder, since World Bank President Jim Kim’s assumption of office. Interestingly, however, there are many nascent and...
View ArticleEconomic Analysis and Knowledge Agenda: Keeping the World Bank Group at the...
Over the past sixty years, the World Bank has been at the forefront of economic analysis through the projects and programs it has designed and financed in the developing world. The robust economic...
View ArticleCan the quest for development effectiveness in Africa also unleash faster...
The quest for development effectiveness has been a learning process, both conceptually and empirically. One of the important outcomes of the process has been the emphasis on the notion that...
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Aging: A problem in Africa as well?
Recently, while reviewing a document, I came across a statistic about age dependency* in the Republic of Mauritius. Mauritius already had an age dependency ratio of 10.9 in 2010 and this is projected...
View ArticleRealizing Africa's Youth Potential: Africa needs investors to create jobs for...
Africa is fortunate. Unlike more industrialized countries and even some industrializing countries like China, Africa is endowed with a much younger population. This could offer a tremendous...
View ArticleUnderstanding Europe’s immigrants’ challenge from the viewpoint of the bottom...
A recent Economist (April 25th, 2015) cover story on the “Europe’s boat people: A moral and political disaster ” (requires a subscription), refers to a critical global challenge of migrants and asylum...
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Sustaining structural reforms in Africa in good and tough times
The recently-published Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by the International Monetary Fund underscores the enduring view of international financial institutions that the depth,...
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Was the resource boom more akin to a resource curse for Africa?
The IMF’s Regional Economic Outlook (REO – April 2016) notes that the region’s dependence on primary commodities has increased since the 1980s with nearly half of the countries in the region subject to...
View ArticleStepping out of the comfort zone
Knowledge product innovation in ECA: The case of MIRPAL It is almost eighteen months since World Bank Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region launched a program of knowledge sharing in the post crisis...
View ArticleRussia’s Migration Reforms – Learning to look at the Glass Half Full
The more I work on migration issues, I have come to realize the uniqueness of the CIS region migration phenomena. Migration in what is currently called the CIS region (the former Soviet Union) includes...
View ArticleThe ECA diaspora can contribute to development
At approximately 46 million, the diaspora population originating from the ECA (Europe & Central Asia) countries is the largest of all the development regions. Over ten percent of the population of...
View ArticleAre migrants more likely than nationals to be unemployed during economic crisis?
There has recently been heated debate regarding migrant employment behavior in host countries during and after economic crises. The popular view is that migrants have an incentive to remain unemployed...
View ArticleRemittances in Europe and Central Asia (ECA): The medium term outlook is not...
Thanks to Dilip Ratha and his team at the World Bank, we have an update on global remittance trends. Since it came during Thanksgiving week in the US, some people may have missed interesting highlights...
View ArticleRussia’s Migration Reforms – Learning to look at the Glass Half Full
The more I work on migration issues, I have come to realize the uniqueness of the CIS region migration phenomena. Migration in what is currently called the CIS region (the former Soviet Union) includes...
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