UNDP Human Development Report 2009: Preliminary Chapter Summary
1. Freedom and Movement
Our world is characterized by an extremely inequitable distribution of human development. In some cases, the single human action that has the greatest possibility of expanding a person’s capabilities is moving from the place where one is born. Human movement - both across and within [...]
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Bangkok – The global financial crisis may have a dramatic impact on the lives of migrant workers in South East Asia, according to officials at a recent meeting here on migration and HIV. As the crisis unfolds, a two-way increase is expected in the movement of people: overseas migrants returning home after losing their [...]
Comme tous les pays de la région, la République dominicaine souffre d’une décélération des “remesas”, ces sommes d’argent envoyées par les émigrés, l’une des premières sources de devises et le principal amortisseur de la pauvreté. “Les remesas ont commencé à diminuer à partir d’août 2008 et la réduction risque d’être drastique au cours des prochains [...]
New JMDI local authorities newsletter published:
The JMDI-Local Authorities (LA) Network has been set up to draw on local authorities’ experience in helping migrants get involved in the countries they left behind. The network has just published the first edition of a newsletter which showcases examples of how cities and regions can help make migration work [...]
Despite leaving behind a hot climate, their home, family, friends and well-established careers — he’s a chartered accountant, she’s a software engineer — the Raos admit the culture shock hasn’t been as jolting as they imagined. They stepped off the plane on a Friday and walked into a local Bank of Nova Scotia on Saturday. [...]
DAKAR, (IRIN) - An international financial recession threatens to worsen the “severe medical workforce crisis” faced by almost 60 African and Asian countries, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO). The fewer health workers there are, the less chance a woman has to survive childbirth and a child his or her infancy, according to [...]
The financial crisis that is affecting the industrialized countries is now beginning to hit the migrant workers, hard. Mr. Dilip Ratha, a senior economist at the World Bank, reports “a serious moderation in the growth of remittances”. The decline will be less severe than for other flows such as foreign investment, but its effects will [...]
Kingston, Jamaica - The European Commission - United Nations Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JM&DI) launched a Call for Proposals, which will run until 13th March 2009, to provide approximately 10 million Euro in funding to support concrete interventions in:
1) Migrant remittances;
2) Migrant communities;
3) Migrant capacities; and
4) Migrant rights.
Jamaican civil society organisations, interested in submitting [...]
