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Migrants Count: Five Steps Toward Better Migration Data

May 27, 2009

Center for Global Development


	CGD Development Update \| May 27, 2009

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Migrants Count: Five Steps Toward Better Migration Data

Crumby statistics on global migration make it tough to craft policies that help poor people. Yet better data could be gathered easily—by adding a few questions to each national census, for example—according to a new report by a CGD blue-ribbon commission. CGD research fellow Michael Clemens, who organized the commission, has prepared a Migration Data Report Card that grades countries based upon how well they meet the commission's first recommendation.

Sen. Kerry Champions Development

John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for diplomacy and development to rank alongside defense at the heart of America's foreign policy in a major speech at the Brookings Institution last week. CGD's Sarah Jane Staats calls the speech a "knock-out" and writes that Sen. Kerry has put himself at the forefront of a growing number of congressional champions pushing for a more effective U.S. approach to global development.

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Institute of Medicine on U.S. Commitment to Global Health

"Thanks for a good decade; don't slack off now ($15b by 2012). Healthier world = happier, healthier us. It's more than AIDS. Play nice with others. Get your act together." That's CGD vice president Ruth Levine's twitter version of the new Institute of Medicine report on U.S. efforts to boost global health. Levine, who contributed to the report, calls it a future-oriented agenda that balances ambition with realism.

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Nuhu Ribadu, Nigerian Corruption Fighter, in the House 05/26/2009
Sen. Kerry Champions Development In Knock-Out Speech 05/26/2009
Review of Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day 05/23/2009

Recent MCA Monitor Blog Posts

Obama Signals Support for MCC in FY10 Budget 05/11/2009
MCC Compact Implementation in Madagascar Put on Hold 03/23/2009
First Meeting of the New MCC Board: More Orientation than Decision-Making 03/20/2009

David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog

Debt = Rope 05/26/2009
Cross-post Review/Jyothi Makes the Economist 05/23/2009
Chapter 4! 05/20/2009

Bretton Woods Non-Commission

What Can Be Done to Make Aid More Effective? (Financial Times Arena blog) 05/26/2009
World Bank Health Projects Get Mixed Review (Lancet) 05/23/2009
A New Financial Crisis around the World (Congressional Quarterly) 05/18/2009
Africa Could Slide Back into Poverty (Marketplace Radio) 05/13/2009
Your Turn: Should the U.S. Do More to Prop Up the IMF? (Washington Post blog) 05/13/2009

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Research Fellow Michael Clemens leads CGD's Migration and Development initiative. This work investigates how rich countries' regulation of international movement by people from poor countries shapes the lives of the people who move as well as those who do not.

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