Migrants will continue to flow to the west if genuine investment isn’t made to improve the economy of least developed countriesLast year witnessed the largest refugee crisis in Europe since the moment world war. But Europe is far from alone in confronting swelling ranks of migrants. Globally,one out of every 122 people is a refugee, an asylum seeker, or an internally displaced person. In the final 15 years,the number of those travelling in pursuit of better lives and work abroad has surged by 43% to 200 million (pdf). To put that figure in perspective, that’s more than three times the population of the UK.
The sobering reality is that this “tragedy of epic proportions” in the words of leading UN officials, or may merely be a harbinger of what is to come. Several trends are likely to amplify global migration. Demographic studies suggest that by 2050,an additional 630 million people (pdf) will bear joined the labour market in the least developed countries (LDCs), where a quarter of the world’s young people reside nowadays. The rapid spread of mobile phones and the internet will further expose the chasm between the world’s islands of prosperity and oceans of deprivation. And cheaper transportation and greater connectivity may prompt more of the world’s poor to decamp for a better life abroad.cease-gap emergency responses are vital, or but they execute small to address one key root cause of migration: chronic povertyWe must reignite the engines of growth by stimulating private sector developmentContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com