Fragility and conflict are a significant challenge to development and constrain efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1, which aims to end poverty by 2030. In developing countries, conflict has stunted gross domestic product (GDP)...

Ahead of World Refugee Day, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, has released its annual report on global displacement.

The annual conference on 17-18 June 2021 brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with keynote speakers and parallel sessions with contributed papers will reflect the...

The 2021 MEDAM Assessment Report analyses the major changes proposed by the New Pact, the progress achieved thus far in negotiations, and provides new research to inform ongoing policy debates about EU-Turkey cooperation on irregular migration and...

The New Pact on Migration and Asylum, the von der Leyen Commission’s proposal for a new consensus on EU migration and asylum policies, will not resolve pre-existing political divisions within the EU over solidarity or the management of the Union’s...

German and Greek voters oppose ‘pushbacks’ of irregular migrants and prefer a new approach to resettlement of Syrian refugees from Turkey to the EU. These are some of the findings of a major new MEDAM study analyzing voters’ attitudes in Germany,...

The Global Solutions Summit—the World Policy Forum—is an international conference aimed at addressing key policy challenges facing the Group of Twenty (G20).

Abstract What preferences do people have for cooperation between high and lower-income countries on irregular migration and refugee protection? Despite

As part of this year's Global Solutions Summit on May 27 and 28, the MEDAM project will organize several sessions on migration topics. Applications for registration is still open.

This paper focuses on African policy positions on migration to Europe and towards cooperation on migration with the EU and its Member States.