Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Development in Costa Rica
Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Development in Costa Rica is
the result of a project carried out by the Centro Centroamericano de Población (CCP)
at the University of Costa Rica and the OECD Development Centre, in collaboration
with the Dirección General de Migración y Extranjeria (DGME) and with support from
the European Union. The project aimed to provide policy makers with evidence on the
way migration influences specific sectors – the labour market, agriculture, education,
investment and financial services and social protection and health – and, in turn,
how sectoral policies affect migration. The report addresses four dimensions of the
migration cycle: emigration, remittances, return and immigration.
The results of the empirical work confirm that migration contributes to the development
of Costa Rica, but the potential of migration is not fully exploited. One explanation
is that, despite the acknowledgement of the links between migration and development
in recent legislation and policy, policy makers in Costa Rica do not sufficiently
take migration into account in all respective policy areas. Costa Rica therefore needs
to adopt a more coherent policy agenda to better integrate migration into development
strategies, improve co-ordination mechanisms and strengthen international co-operation,
to enhance the contribution of migration to development in the country.
Published on July 31, 2017Also available in: Spanish
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