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CGD NOTES
August 31, 2022
When the G20 pledges of $100 billion of SDR recycling materialize, there will no doubt be much self-congratulatory celebration. But the celebrations will be meaningless if the SDRs do not make their way to the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) that need them. Will we be able to tell if the SD...
Blog Post
August 31, 2022
In an attempt to make SDR data a bit more decipherable—and because exploring SDRs data can be quite amusing (despite what your friends and family might say)—we have decided to publish our own monthly updates on the SDR holdings data in the form of a blog post. In each post we’ll highlight the mechan...
Blog Post
August 29, 2022
We know that climate change will alter migration patterns and increase movement in some places. But despite hundreds, if not thousands, of studies, we still don’t know who will move because of climate change, or precisely how or where. Part of that is a conceptual problem: what exactly is a ‘climate...
Blog Post
August 29, 2022
Datasets that have integrated migration and climate data are hard to come by. The Terrapops project, for example, provides extracts that include both migration data (built using national censuses) and climate data. These are useful, but variables in a single extract are often cataloged across differ...
Blog Post
August 03, 2022
Ukraine’s dire financing situation is front and center in the debate over how the world will weather the war being waged by Russia. The IMF will play an important role in extending credit to Ukraine directly, but the institution is also being used a conduit for other countries’ assistance. In this b...
Press Release
July 28, 2022
Refugees’ right to work has been repeatedly affirmed in international law, yet in practice the majority of the world’s refugees live in countries that substantially restrict those rights, according to a new study released today by the Center for Global Development, Refugees International, and Asylum...
Blog Post
July 28, 2022
Today we published the 2022 Global Refugee Work Rights Report, a joint report with Asylum Access and Refugees International that documents and analyzes the extent to which refugees have the right to work, both in law (de jure) and in practice (de facto), in 51 countries. This blog introduces our fin...
REPORTS
July 28, 2022
Refugees’ right to work has been repeatedly recognized in international agreements and research continues to demonstrate the benefits of this right for refugees and their host countries alike. Yet most refugees today face significant legal and practical barriers to full economic inclusion in the lab...