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In its 2009 Human Development Report titled; ‘Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development’, UNDP says analysis has shown that large gains to human development would flow from improved policies towards migrants.
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has asked governments worldwide to restructure migration policies so as to make international migration easy. UNDP estimates that close to 1 billion people migrate from their places of origin in search of better economic conditions while other are forced.
In its 2009 Human
Development Report titled; ‘Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and
development’, UNDP says analysis has shown that large gains to human
development would flow from improved policies towards migrants.
The
report launched in Uganda on December17 shows that 37 per cent of the
international migration are from developing countries to developed
countries, 60 per cent is between developing and developing countries
while 3 per cent from developed countries to developing countries.
The
UNDP senior economist in Uganda, Mr Sebastian Levine, told Sunday
Monitor at the launch that Uganda should improve on the working
conditions of workers.
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