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Jun
21
2022
11:00—12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) 4:00—5:00pm BST / 5:00—6:00pm GMT
June 15, 2022
Almost all migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras apprehended at the US border have no accessible, lawful option to migrate. Some are fleeing danger, some are seeking economic opportunity, and for many, the two are inextricably linked. Labor migration offers a lawful alternative, with po...
BOOKS
May 17, 2022
Relief Chief: A Manifesto for Saving Lives in Dire Times is Mark Lowcock's behind-the-scenes account of his experience as the world's most senior humanitarian official—the UN Relief Chief. In his four years on the job, Lowcock coordinated the work of UN agencies, the Red Cross, and countless nationa...
May
20
2022
9:00—11:00 AM EDT
May 16, 2022
The #LetThemWork Initiative Workshop has been organized as a platform to discuss and enhance the policy advocacy on possible public policy reviews to inform local action towards economic inclusion for refugees and forcibly displaced persons. The global private sector workshop will also create a plat...
BRIEFS
April 28, 2022
COVID-19 has disrupted health systems across the globe. Nigeria reported its first COVID-19 case in February 2020, and, since then, the government has rolled out four vaccines to help control the pandemic—Moderna, Oxford-Astra Zeneca (AZ), Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Pfizer-BioNTech.
Blog Post
April 28, 2022
In the past two years, we have all learned that the end of a COVID-19 wave is the end of a chapter, not the end of the story. Ongoing COVID transmission means the risk of new variants of pandemic potential is ever present and vaccination remains our best defence. The primary near-term challenges for...
BRIEFS
April 28, 2022
COVID-19 radically changed most people’s lives in 2020, including across Africa. In Ethiopia, the disruption started with school closing, and other restrictions soon followed. Despite these efforts to contain the virus, Ethiopia—like almost all countries—suffered significant health impacts. It has r...
May
5
2022
VIRTUAL
10:00—11:30 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada) 3:00 - 4:30pm British Summer Time (BST)
April 26, 2022
This event, organized by The Right to Not Obey, a project of the Otraparte Corporation and the Center for Global Development (CGD) as part of the "Let them Work" Initiative, will focus on discussing the main challenges faced by Venezuelan migrant women in their process of socioeconomic integration i...
WORKING PAPERS
March 23, 2022
International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those effects...
Blog Post
March 23, 2022
The United States was once a major haven for refugees fleeing violent persecution overseas. Today it is much diminished. The US severely restricted refugee resettlement beginning in 2017. Annual refugee arrivals plummeted by 86 percent by fiscal year 2020—almost all before the pandemic. It is a door...