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Youth Entrepreneurship Pitching Event 2018: Start-up and Scale-up for SDGs!
… Politecnico di Milano, the International Organization for Migration and Capacity invite young entrepreneurs to pitch … partner with migrants; as well as businesses which offer migration related solutions, are particularly encouraged. …
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Ad Hoc Expert Meeting on the Contribution of Migrants to Development: Trade, Investment and Developmental Links
… consultation with member States. Discussions will include: Migration trends The impact of the economic crisis on migration Trade, investment and development linkages of migration Policy frameworks to enhance migrants´ …
News
Least Developed Countries Report 2015
… to failure of rural development behind poverty-driven migration from world’s poorest countries Facts and Figures … – 2015 Statistical Tables (Spreadsheet format XLSX) The migration of poor people from the countryside into cities …
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High-level Roundtable on Entrepreneurship for Migrants and Refugees: From Policy formulation to implementation
… the Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration Longer-term efforts to integrate migrants and … Questions to be addressed: How to insure coherence between migration and refugee policies and entrepreneurship promotion …
Publication
Best Practices in Investment for Development: How to Integrate FDI and Skill Development - Lessons from Canada and Singapore
… through spillovers to employees and local firms, induced migration, and participation in local education and training … level of appropriate skills for a given economy. Yet, migration policies can also be designed to augment the … trends, institutions and policies related to education, migration, FDI promotion, and the subsequent dissemination of …
Speaker
Sahib Mammadov
… representation of the UN International Organization for Migration on migration issues and in the European Union TACIS project in …
Project
Promoting refugee and migrant entrepreneurship in East Africa, the Andean region, and the Middle East
… growth, but also for promoting safe, regular and orderly migration and changing societal perceptions around immigrants … endorsement of the Policy Guide on Entrepreneurship and Migration at the International Level: In partnership with … on Refugees; Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration; UN General Assembly Resolution on Entrepreneurship …
News
Engage, enable and empower the LDC diaspora, meeting told
… said. However, "the other side of the coin is the costs of migration in terms of brain drain, as many of the most … , Director-General of the International Organization for Migration, told the Trade and Development Board that among … or geographic regions within countries." In addition, migration costs appeared to discriminate against the poorest …
Meeting
Trade analysis software Virtual Institute national workshop for South Africa
… of bilateral trade. A hands-on exercise on trade and migration will allow participants to put their new skills to …
Meeting
Cross-sector Approaches for Local Actors on Migrants' Inclusion
… of local level actions toward harnessing the potential of migration for inclusive and sustainable development. … …