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This report presents a summary of recommendations on how we can all gain from migration. They are the result of a multi-faceted project undertaken in partnership with the European Commission to rethink the management of the emerging mobility system. New ideas, based on an exhaustive review of...
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This report presents a summary of recommendations on how we can all gain from migration. They are the result of a multi-faceted project undertaken in partnership with the European Commission to rethink the management of the emerging mobility system. New ideas, based on an exhaustive review of...
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In November 2005, Glenys Kinnock, Co-President of the ACP EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, reported that “there are more nurses from Malawi in Manchester than in Malawi and more doctors from Ethiopia in Chicago than Ethiopia.”1 These Africans had been lured North by work permits targeted at...
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The tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004, to which more than 225 000 deaths had been attributed by the United Nations’ six-month review in June 2005, elicited a worldwide humanitarian relief effort unprecedented in its scale; individuals, firms, non-governmental...
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Aid and trade policies – in OECD countries and in developing countries – might reinforce each other to promote development, or they might be substitutes: the sign of the correlation between trade and aid flows depends on the context. East Asia’s rapid growth demonstrates the important...
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Natural disasters (droughts, earthquakes, epidemics, floods, wind storms) damage wellbeing, both in their immediate and long-term aftermath, and because the insecurity of exposure to disasters is in itself harmful to risk-averse people. As such, mitigating and coping with the risk of natural...
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Le 26 décembre 2004, un tsunami a déferlé sur l’océan Indien, faisant, d’après l’examen effectué par les Nations unies six mois plus tard (juin 2005), plus de 225 000 morts. Ce raz-de-marée a suscité un effort humanitaire planétaire d’une ampleur sans précédent. Particuliers,...
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Dans les pays de l’OCDE comme dans les pays en développement, l’aide et les politiques commerciales peuvent se conforter mutuellement au bénéfice du développement, ou se substituer les unes aux autres. La manifestation d’une corrélation entre flux commerciaux et flux d’aide dépend...
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La politique budgétaire n’a nullement été négligée en Amérique latine. Depuis la fin de la crise de la dette des années 1980, les pays de la région se sont attachés à réduire leurs dépenses. Les déficits budgétaires sont tombés de 11 pour cent des recettes publiques dans les...
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