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1. Migration and the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda

   Publication - Books or book chapters - 5 September 2013

   Paula Lucci, Pedro Martins

   Migration and the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda gathers together recent research findings outlining the links between migration and development and proposing how migration can best be factored into the future development framework, offering a timely contribution to the argument for migration’s inclusion in the coming development agenda.

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   Letter to Barclays Bank - "No winners from the closure of Barclays’ Somali accounts"

   Opinion - Letters - 2 September 2013

   ​Kevin Watkins, the Executive Director of the Overseas Development Institute has called on Barclays Bank to reconsider its decision to close its Somalia accounts, describing the move as 'unwarranted, unnecessary and a threat to some of the world's most vulnerable people’.

   He cites new research from the Humanitarian Policy Group in ODI on a major cash transfer programme introduced in response to the Horn of Africa famine.

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3. 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 - 12 August 2013

   Development Policy Review Vol. 31, iss. 2

   Yurendra Basnett

   This article looks at the East African Community's Common Market Protocol of July 2010 and argues that there are contradictions and inconsistencies in its implementation. For the full table of contents, or to subscribe or submit an article visit http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/dpr

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   Working out of chronic poverty: a policy guide

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 9 August 2013

   Lucy Scott, Andrew Shepherd, Pedro Martins, Dominik Bulla, Martha Chen, Davuluri Venkateswarlu, Jill Wells

   ​This policy guide examines policies and programmes to improve the quantity and quality of work for chronically poor people engaged in informal wage employment so that their hard work can contribute to poverty escapes.

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   Bangladeshi sailors – characteristics, working conditions and HIV and AIDS-related vulnerabilities

   Publication - Briefing papers - 30 July 2013

   ODI Project Briefings 82

   Fiona Samuels, Mirza Manbira Sultana (CARE Bangladesh), Navneet Kaur (CARE India) and Surajit Chakraborty (CARE India)

   Drawing on small-scale qualitative studies in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, this new Project Briefing – part of the EMPHASIS (Enhancing Mobile Populations’ Access to HIV and AIDS Information Services and Support) project – focuses on Bangladeshi sailors' knowledge of HIV- and AIDS-related diseases. Although reported HIV-risk behaviour is low, the study highlights behaviours such as the low use of condoms and habits in visiting sex workers.

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   Overlooking the central Kumasi market at closing time in Kumasi, Ghana

   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: Jonathan Ernst / World Bank
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   UK launch of the European Report on Development 2013

   Event - Public event - 10 June 2013 13:00 - 14:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

   The authors of the European Report on Development 2013 (ERD 2013) will present some of the findings of the report, which provides a contribution to the post-2015 debate, and will put them in perspective with the recent publication of the High-Level Panel Report.

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   Pathways to health services for cross-border migrants living with HIV: Nepalese and Bangladeshis at home and in destination sites in India

   Publication - Briefing papers - 6 June 2013

   ODI Project Briefings 81

   Fiona Samuels, Mirza Manbira Sultana, Prokriti Nokrek, Abu Taher, Nabesh Bohidar, Bharat Gautam and Prabodh Devkota

   Drawing on small-scale qualitative studies in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, this Project Briefing explores the experiences of people living with HIV as they migrate.

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8. What do we know about the impact of social protection programmes on the decision to migrate?

   Publication - Journal articles or issues - 15 May 2013

   Migration and Development

   Jessica Hagen-Zanker and Carmen Leon Himmelstine

   This literature review synthesises the current empirical evidence on how access to social protection in low-income and middle-income countries influences decisions to migrate internally or internationally.

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9. Live stream launch of the European Report on Development 2013

   Event - Live Stream - 9 April 2013 09:00 - 11:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

   Live stream of the launch event for The European Report on Development (ERD) 2013. The latest report aims to provide an independent European contribution to the emerging debate on a possible post-2015 consensus on international development.

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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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