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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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Yurendra Basnett
Yurendra Basnett

Yurendra Basnett

Research Fellow - Trade, International Economic Development Group

Yurendra Basnett is a development economist specialising in trade and development policies. He has over seven years of experience advising governments, UN agencies and donors on Aid for Trade, WTO negotiations, regional trade agreements (such as Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations Plus, East African Community, Economic Partnership Agreement and South Asian Free Trade Agreement), trade capacity building, and trade and human development. He has worked in Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan, Namibia, Nepal, Vanuatu, Samoa and the Solomon Islands. He is also reading for his PhD in political economy of development at the University of Cambridge with Dr. Ha-Joon Chang. His thesis is on how institutions governing labour mobility function at regional, bilateral and global levels, and with what implications for economic development and poverty reduction.

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European Report on Development 2013 - Post-2015: global action for an inclusive and sustainable future

Publication - Research reports and studies - 9 April 2013
James Mackie (European Centre for Development Policy Management), Pedro Martins (Overseas Development Institute) and Stephan Klingebiel (Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik)
The European Report on Development 2013 aims to provide an independent contribution to the post-2015 debate by focusing on how best global collective action can support the efforts of developing countries to achieve development.
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Trade and investment in the post-2015 agenda: what role should the EU play?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 1 April 2013

The focus brought by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has produced noteworthy achievements in improving health and education outcomes as well as reducing poverty. But a key limitation of the MDGs was their failure to include dimensions of structural transformation and integrate the development of productive capacities. This meant that while issues of social development were largely addressed (mostly through aid), the MDGs did not pay sufficient attention to economic development. Now is the time to address this imbalance.

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Labour mobility in east Africa: an analysis of the East African Community's Common Market and the free movement of workers

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 7 February 2013
Development Policy Review Volume 31, Issue Number 2
Yurendra Basnett
This article advocates an institutional perspective in analysing labour mobility, since rules governing cross-border labour markets are an embodiment of access and participation rights, and can determine the formalisation or informalisation of work and the protection and benefits accrued by migrant workers. It examines the East African Community's Common Market Protocol of July 2010, which seeks to promote the ‘free movement of workers’ within the Community. It argues that there are contradictions and inconsistencies in implementing the Protocol and provides recommendations for addressing them.
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