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POLICY PAPER

Migrant Workers in the Tourism Industry: How has COVID-19 Affected Them, and What Does the Future Hold?
Helen Dempster
and
Cassandra Zimmer
May 18, 2020
Governments around the world have closed borders and businesses to combat the spread of COVID-19. These measures have had a devastating effect on the tourism industry, cutting travel by 25 percent and costing more than 100 million jobs.
Blog Post

Flatten the Curve without Flattening the Economy: How to Stop COVID-19 from Causing Another Catastrophe for Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Lorcan Clarke et al.
April 06, 2020
Dozens of low- and middle-countries (LMICs) have now implemented stringent policies to slow the spread of COVID-19 in communities, in an effort to flattern the curve. Yet flattening the curve comes at a cost–it also flattens the economy
Blog Post

Introducing an Outcomes-Based Migrant Welfare Fund
Rebekah Smith
and
Richard Johnson
January 16, 2020
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...
VIDEO

New Ways to Support Refugees and Hosts
December 13, 2019
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