Policy Work

World Bank Reports

Global Skill Partnerships for Migration: Preparing Tomorrow’s Workers for Home and Abroad, 2025 (Link)
Short Abstract: Higher-income countries face rapid aging and critical labor shortages, while lower-income countries have growing youth populations that often lack skills for quality employment. Global Skill Partnerships (GSPs) address this imbalance by enabling countries to jointly invest in training systems that meet labor demands domestically and abroad while supporting regulated skilled migration. This report reviews GSP concepts, global examples, and lessons learned, and provides a policy roadmap for implementing effective partnerships with support from multilateral institutions.

Expanding Development Approaches to Refugees and Their Hosts in Ethiopia, 2024 (Link)
Short Abstract: Ethiopia hosts nearly one million refugees and asylum seekers and, despite progressive policies like the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework, continues to face challenges in achieving meaningful socioeconomic outcomes. Promoting refugee self-reliance and economic integration is key to improving conditions for both refugees and host communities. This report draws on data from the Socio-Economic Survey of Refugees in Ethiopia (SESRE) to analyze these issues and inform policy directions.

Blog Posts

¿Cómo impacta la migración venezolana a la economía colombiana? Resumiendo las lecciones de investigaciones recientes (Link)

New survey highlights the unique challenges that Guatemalan deportees face with economic integration back home with Mateo Villamizar-Chaparro and Erik Wibbels (Link)