Experts in nine CIS countries to discuss today EDB Centre for Integration Studies' research on labour migration in the Common Economic Space
Almaty, 28 March 2012. Today the Migration and Remittance Peer-Assisted Learning network (MIRPAL) will arrange the videoconference Particularities of the Regulation of Labour Migration in the Common Economic Space (CES). The conference is supported by the World Bank and will link its offices in Almaty, Astana, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Yerevan, Kyiv, Kishinev, Minsk, Moscow, and Tashkent.
Experts from the World Bank and the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) will take part in the conference in addition to MIRPAL’s nine country teams.
The conference will discuss the results of the research prepared by the EDB Centre for Integration Studies, Labour Migration in the CES: Economic Effects and Legal-Institutional Consequences of Labour Migration Agreements (https://eabr.org/analytics/).
«The labour migration agreements made in the framework of the Common Economic Space include a number of important innovative features that will foster the development of labour migration in the CES. However, the effect of their adoption will be insignificant at this stage because they will affect the countries that are recipients of labour,» Evgeny Vinokurov, Director of the Centre for Integration Studies, said. «If the countries that are donors of labour resources join these agreements this will have real effect on the economies of the region and huge costs caused by illegal labour migration will be eliminated.»
Additional Information
MIRPAL (Migration and Remittance Peer-Assisted Learning network) is a community of migration and remittance practitioners and policymakers (governmental and non-governmental agencies) from the project countries. The project is aimed at providing a platform for a dialogue, developing policy recommendations and implementing initiatives aimed at the improvement of remittance calculation and labour migration policies, and research. The project includes nine CIS countries: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine.
The Eurasian Development Bank is an international financial institution founded by Russia and Kazakhstan in January 2006 with the mission to facilitate the development of market economies, sustainable economic growth and the expansion of trade and other economic ties in its member states. The EDB’s charter capital exceeds US $1.5 billion. The member states of the Bank are the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan. Read more at https://www.eabr.org.