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May 09, 2024
As many countries around the world prepare to celebrate Mothers’ Day weekend, including in the United States, care is at the top of many people’s minds. This theme resonates from intimate household spaces to the broad corridors of global policy. The G20 is one global policy space where, each year, i...
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April 17, 2024
In the wake of COVID and amidst global crises, care has increasingly become recognized as a global issue critical for sustainable development and gender equality. Yet, there are still massive gaps in care policies, services, and financing, and there is much more work that needs to happen to ensure u...
Blog Post
April 02, 2024
Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) published new guidance aiming to support government officials as they negotiate and implement international agreements on health worker mobility. In an era characterized as a “global scramble” for health workers, what does this guidance say and how can ...
Blog Post
March 28, 2024
Researchers who want to influence migration policy often struggle to communicate their research and see their findings translated into action. One potential reason is that many researchers ignore the outsized role of the public. Based on a new CGD Working Paper, this blog explores four key questions...
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...
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January 23, 2024
Over the coming decades, the world must decarbonise at an unprecedented speed. Yet deploying ‘green’ technologies cannot be done without a sufficiently sized and adequately skilled workforce. New research from the Center for Global Development (CGD) suggests that workforce gaps pose a significant bo...
Blog Post
December 14, 2023
The US labor market has changed a lot since 1991, but the federal list of shortage occupations, which impacts employers and immigrant workers alike, has not. Now, for the first time in decades, the US Department of Labor (DOL) will soon be seeking information on how the Schedule A shortage occupatio...