Policy makers who aim at reducing migration pressures are well advised to create opportunities for local economic development. By providing better prospects for local populations, migration pressures can be mitigated effectively.

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)...

Top Afghan officials plead for assistance as the White House is torn between isolating Taliban and preventing economic collapse

In 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to allow over a million asylum seekers to cross the border into Germany. One key concern at the time wa

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...

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

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,...