PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Over the next 80 years, the world will experience significant demographic shifts. Developed countries are seeing massive reductions in their working-age populations, due to a combination of below-replacement fertility and increased longevity. The impact of this is already being felt, with the private sector in many countries demanding an increase in the number of workers available and the types of skills that they possess.

At the same time, developing countries are seeing massive increases in their working-age populations. Many of these new labour market entrants will enter increasingly developed local economies, others will migrate regionally in search of opportunities. And others will seek work elsewhere, in places such as the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia, to pursue fulfilling livelihoods and send remittances back home.

Managing migration to the benefit of all involved is therefore one of the most pressing issues of our time. In this public event, researchers from the Center for Global Development (CGD) will discuss new initiatives aimed at regulating this movement through a Global Skill Partnership model. The discussion will draw on experiences between Central America and the United States, between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, and between the Pacific and Australia, shedding light on new developments in migration policy, and what lessons they could hold for our changing world.

Speakers:

Professor Satish Chand, Professor of Finance, School of Business, University of New South Wales; Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development

Ms Helen Dempster, Assistant Director and Senior Associate for Policy Outreach for the Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarian Policy Program, Center for Global Development

Refreshments will be provided prior to the forum in the foyer outside of Acton Theatre from 5-5:30pm.

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and the Australian National University are jointly hosting a series of free Introduction to Impact Evaluation workshops on Wednesday 4 March in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG). The purpose of these workshops is to introduce participants to impact evaluation methods, with a focus on randomised control trials (RCTs), and develop their understanding about how these approaches can be used to create evidence to inform policy.

The important role impact evaluations can play in fostering evidence-based policy making is now widely accepted and illustrated by the recent Nobel Prize in Economics being awarded to the pioneers of randomised control trials. However there is a notable absence of their use in the Pacific region, with only a tiny number having been carried out in PNG. These workshops aim to be a first step in changing this by building an appetite for greater evidence about the impact of policies and programs among stakeholders in the government, NGOs and donor community.

The workshops are supported by the Pacific Research Program, which is a consortium led by the ANU Department of Pacific Affairs, the Development Policy Centre and the Lowy Institute and co-funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Speakers include:

Mr Peter Srouji, Senior Research Manager, Innovations for Poverty Action.

Ms Yuna Liang, Senior Research Associate, Innovations for Poverty Action.

Ms Farah Amalia, Senior Training Associate, J-PAL Southeast Asia.

Mr Chris Hoy, Reaseach and Policy Fellow, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.