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At a public event at the Overseas Development Institute on July 3, 2012, Michael Clemens argues that aid projects in Africa need much more rigorous impact evaluation---that is, impact evaluation that is cost-effectively 1) independent, 2) consistent, and 3) transparent.
In August 2001, when the Bush administration and key leaders in Congress were readying the plans for a sweeping overhaul of America’s troubled immigration system, filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini were there to record history in the making—negotiating exclusive access to document the lives and strategies of the principal players. The resulting “Grand Bargain” promised to change the lives of tens of millions of immigrants and affect every citizen and every state in the union. Its eventual failure offers lessons for what a future, successful bargain might look like.
Robertson and Camerini join Esther Olavarria, a key player in the film series, and CGD senior fellow Michael Clemens, for an exclusive look at never-before-released scenes and a discussion on lessons-learned from the “Grand Bargain” era, pointing to what is possible for future, bi-partisan immigration policy.
Michael Clemens uses rich census and administrative microdata to show that high rates of emigration by tertiary-educated Fiji Islanders not only raised investment in tertiary education in Fiji, but also raised the stock of tertiary-educated people in Fiji - net departures.
At the World Bank on December 10, 2010, CGD senior fellow Michael Clemens and World Bank senior economist Gabriel Demombynes presented their work analyzing the evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project.
Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD)
and visiting scholar at the Financial Access Initiative and at NYU-Wagner
and the NYU Dept. of Economics (Spring 2011), talks about the findings from
his research into the UN Millennium Villages.
On September 29, 2010, senior fellow Michael Clemens participated in a panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute of Beside the Golden Door: U.S. Immigration Reform in a New Era of Globalization, a new book that proposes shifting U.S. immigration policy to favor work-based visas.
In this TED Talk-style presentation, CGD research fellow Michael Clemens exhibits his new research on the benefits of global migration.
This video contains highlights from a recent event hosted at CGD, Beyond the Fence, where experts presented groundbreaking insights into the links between migration, remittances and prosperity.
The World Bank's David McKenzie presents research on "brain drain" with remarks from CGD research fellow Michael Clemens.
Michael Clemens, research fellow at the Center for Global Development describes CGD’s Migration and Development initiative.