The cities of tomorrow are all about minds and machines coming together to create innovations that will change the game. Talents around the world are increasingly coming to Singapore for high-tech R&D. Find out how Singapore is creating a collaborative environment to foster greater creativity with multi-disciplinary talents.
An opening 15min talk on global trends day outlining why cities are getting increasingly important.
Today’s developing Megacities are relentless agglomerations of people, drawn not so much by the promise of prosperity as by the hope of survival.
According to recent surveys, every Latin American immigrant in the United States sends between $100 and $300 back home each month. This report highlights the remittance practices of Latin America and their role as a foreign currency source across the region.
In Tajikistan most rural inhabitants don’t have access to drinking water near their homes. This innovative project, initiated by UNDP and the European Commission’s ‘ECHO’ Programme, encourages Tajik migrant workers to earmark some of the money they earn abroad for the installation of drinking water facilities for their families back home.
Funds sent by overseas workers back to Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to drop steeply in 2009, shrinking a crucial source of cash for many families in the region. Remittances to the region began to slow in 2008 after a decade of growth, according to the Inter-American Development Bank, as countries such as the U.S., Spain and Japan, slid into recession.
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The Migration Policy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide. MPI provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels. It aims to meet the rising demand for pragmatic and thoughtful responses to the challenges and opportunities that large-scale migration, whether voluntary or forced, presents to communities and institutions in an increasingly integrated world.
The Migration and Remittances Working Group of the World Bank offers monitoring and forecast and timely analysis on topics such as remittances, migration, and diaspora issues for all countries, regions and income groups.
Focus Migration is an information service that offers up-to-date figures, data and analysis on immigration, migration, asylum and integration issues. The service consists of three core products: country profiles, policy briefs and the “Migration und Bevölkerung” newsletter (in German only).
As the global debate surrounding migration issues grows, BBC News Online looks at some of the most common terms in the migration debate.
The remittances that Mexican emigrants send home to their families from a recession-bound US has dropped by 14 per cent over the last year. Adam Thomson visited the small town of Sengio in the southern state of Michoacan to see how families and local businesses are being affected by the drop off in funds.
