labor mobility

Current migration systems encourage migrants to take on debt and service providers to behave poorly, undermining the development impact of labor mobility. We propose a Migrant Welfare Fund that partners with impact investors to pay service providers for outcomes in connecting migrants to jobs, creat...

More than 25 million people around the world are refugees. Three quarters have been refugees for more than five years. We therefore need to move beyond short-term humanitarian assistance to medium- and long-term solutions. Learn more at /LetThemWork

Many refugees & forced migrants in LMICs are still not formally allowed to work, which leads to lower economic productivity for host countries, poor living standards, and more. A joint CGD-RI initiative is working to address this issue by expanding LMA.

A Global Skill Partnership is a bilateral labor migration agreement between a country of origin and a country of destination. It is a way to regulate how migration happens in a context where the labor forces are shrinking in countries of destination but growing rapidly in countries of origin, result...