Junior Roy Davis Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/junior-roy-davis/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 13 Jun 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Junior Roy Davis Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/junior-roy-davis/ 32 32 UN urges an end to harmful narratives on migration https://jjcornish.com/2018/06/un-urges-an-end-to-harmful-narratives-on-migration/ Wed, 13 Jun 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/06/un-urges-an-end-to-harmful-narratives-on-migration/ United Nations report says large-scale intra African migration lifts the continent’s economy and has benefits to both source and destination countries. It urges the world to end harmful narratives targeting migration which benefits future generations ends intro Secretary General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development Mukhisa Kituyi, says remittances – the money migrants […]

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It urges the world to end harmful narratives targeting migration which benefits future generations

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Secretary General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development Mukhisa Kituyi, says remittances – the money migrants send home to their families –  make up more than half of the capital flows in Africa.

Migrants make up half of the GDP of Ivory Coast and 13% of Rwanda’s which  actively seeks skilled workers. 

The report’s main author Junior Roy Davis says there’s an intimate correlation between migration and trade.

Migration has a bad image because of the burden to recipient countries posed by Africa having the largest number of people forced out of their countries by conflict and natural disasters.

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