Migration and Development: Opportunities and Challenges ...

There is growing consensus that international Migration can have important impacts on development, and that it is important to develop appropriate and effective policy interventions that will help realize the full potential of international Migration . This will require devising measures to harness the developmental potential that emigration from developing countries can bring while, at the same time, ensuring that the depletion of highly skilled workers does not damage development outcomes in the countries of origin. This calls for measures conducive to making remittances more effective as a means to reduce poverty and advance economic development, and to develop new and better ways with which to facilitate the involvement of diaspora communities in the development of their home countries. These are tasks facing Migration and development policymakers at all levels and in every country of the paper is intended to guide policymakers through some of these Challenges .

International Migration and Development (HLD) in September 2006. Taken together, these initiatives signal both a growing consensus that interna-tional migration can have important impacts on development, and that it is an important opportunity to develop policy interventions that will help realize the full potential of international migration.

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