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

OECD Development Centre

Thank you

Global Forum on Remittances and Development 2015

Milan, Italy – 16-19 June 2015

Creating an enabling environment for using remittances for financing development

The role of public policies