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This Regional Partnership Framework (RPF) outlines the World Bank Group (WBG) strategic program for nine Pacific island countries (PIC9): Kiribati, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Republic of Nauru, Republic of Palau, Independent State of Samoa,...
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The seasonal worker program (SWP) was formally introduced in 2012 following a four-year pilot scheme. The program maintains the dual objectives of: (i) contributing to the economic development of nine participating Pacific Island countries and Timor-Leste; and (ii) filling labor shortages in the...
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The Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) is a temporary migration scheme between Australia and selected Pacific Island … migration and explore how negative consequences can be mitigated; and (ii) examine the experience of women in the program …
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International migration for temporary employment is a critical component of South Asia's development path, from both … sharing similar characteristics, opportunities, and challenges when it comes to international migration. All three are lower …-middle income countries where sizeable shares of the working age population migrate overseas. Migration has large positive effects …
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Malaysia has experienced a rise in foreign labor inflows in response to steady economic expansion and demographic changes. The foreign workforce has been hovering around 15 percent of the total labor force in recent years according to Labour Force Surveys by the Department of Statistics Malaysia...
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evidence of significant human mobility flows of (i) internal migration, mainly rural to urban; and (ii) international cross …-border migration, especially from Haiti. Given this context, the DR is an important place to study migration induced by the impacts of … climate change and natural degradation. In this report, climate migration refers to migration that can be attributed largely …
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This note aims to close the knowledge gap about the effectiveness and capacity of labor migration sending systems in … NCA countries. The report assesses whether NCA countries have the fundamental elements of an effective labor migration … such a knowledge gap is critical to inform policies that maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of economic migration …
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The Country Opinion Survey in Haiti assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Haiti perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private...
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Across the world, governments use minimum wages, employment protection legislation, and other labor regulations that define the legal boundaries of employment to manage potential labor market imperfections. These imperfections include information asymmetry, uneven market power between employers...
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