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OECD Development Centre
Creating an enabling environment for using remittances for financing development
The role of public policies
Global Forum on Remittances and Development 2015
Milan, Italy – 16-19 June 2015
David KhoudourHead of the Migration and Skills Unit
Public policies and migration:A typology
Migration policies narrowly conceived
• Regulation of flows
• Migrants (re)integration
Migration-related development policies
• Reducing social costs
• Promoting brain circulation
• Engaging diasporas
• Remittances
Non-migration sectoral development
policies
• With an impact on and affected by migration
PUBLIC POLICIES
Decision to send (or not)
Volume and frequency
Use of remittances
How can sectoral development policies affect remittances?
Remittance senders
Remittance recipients
Sectoral development
policies
Substitutioneffect
Complementarity effect
Less remittances
Less investment
More remittances
More investment
Sectoral development policies help create an enabling environment
Investment & financial services policies
Agricultural policies
Education & skills policies
Health & social
protection policies
• More efficient and widely available financial services
• Tax exemptions• Financial education
• Health and social benefits• Pensions
• More secure land rights• Crop insurance• Subsidies• Agricultural training
• Conditional cash transfers• Scholarships• Non monetary benefits
Need to better integrate migration
and remittances into development
strategies
Need to better coordinate
policies to improve policy coherence for development