ILO and World Bank promote development through well-regulated temporary migration

News | 08 September 2014
The ILO brought together a provocative panel to explore how an expansion of well-managed temporary labour migration could be part of the solution to unemployment. During this panel, the trade union member emphasized the importance of not undermining existing labour standards in the host countries, while the employer focused on the need to enhance the skills of migrant workers and to maximize the benefits from remittances.

In a Side Event on sustainable development and labour markets at the Third Small Island Developing States Conference in Apia, the ILO Deputy Director General, the President of Kiribati and the Senior Economist of the World Bank, Pacific Office, called on both Pacific Islands countries, and Pacific Rim countries to develop policies to encourage and expand well-regulated labour migration.