From the article:
Countries across Europe have been operating under the assumption that by sending more money overseas, it will stop people migrating. The only problem? There’s little evidence to suggest that this strategy works.
When Sebastian Kurz, now the world’s
first millennial leader, was Austria’s minister for foreign affairs, he announced a simple plan to reduce migration; dramatically increase his country’s foreign aid budget. In the same year (2016), Britain pledged to
spend aid money more efficiently so its creates jobs in poorer countries to “reduce the pressure for mass migration to Europe.” The European Union had
the same strategy—invest money, tackle the root causes of migration, which would stop people undertaking the dangerous journey to Europe.
But researchers from the Center for Global Development, a Washington DC-based think tank, analyzed the few existing studies on the relationship between aid and migration and noted in it
report that the strategy might be having the opposite effect.
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