David Khoudour presented at the 2015 Global Forum on Remittances and Development in Milan, Italy. He discussed how public policies can create an enabling environment for using remittances to finance development. Khoudour categorized public policies into migration policies, migration-related development policies, and non-migration sectoral development policies. Sectoral development policies in areas like financial services, agriculture, education, health, and social protection can influence remittance flows and investment by either complementing or substituting for remittances. Coordinating policies across sectors and better integrating migration into development strategies can improve how remittances support development.

1. OECD Development Centre
Creating an enabling environment for using
remittances for financing development
The role of public policies
Global Forum on Remittances and Development 2015
Milan, Italy – 16-19 June 2015
David Khoudour
Head of the Migration and Skills Unit

2. Public policies and migration:
A typology
Migration policies
narrowly conceived
• Regulation of flows
• Migrants
(re)integration
Migration-related
development policies
• Reducing social
costs
• Promoting brain
circulation
• Engaging diasporas
• Remittances
Non-migration
sectoral development
policies
• With an impact on
and affected by
migration
PUBLIC POLICIES

3. Decision to
send (or not)
Volume and
frequency
Use of
remittances
How can sectoral development
policies affect remittances?
Remittance
senders
Remittance
recipients
Sectoral
development
policies
Substitution
effect
Complementarity
effect
Less
remittances
Less
investment
More
remittances
More
investment

4. Sectoral development policies help
create an enabling environment
Investment
& financial
services
policies
Agricultural
policies
Education
& skills
policies
Health &
social
protection
policies
• More efficient and widely
available financial services
• Tax exemptions
• Financial education
• Health and social benefits
• Pensions
• More secure land rights
• Crop insurance
• Subsidies
• Agricultural training
• Conditional cash transfers
• Scholarships
• Non monetary benefits
Need to better
integrate migration
and remittances
into development
strategies
Need to better
coordinate policies
to improve policy
coherence for
development

5. OECD Development Centre
Thank you
Global Forum on Remittances and Development 2015
Milan, Italy – 16-19 June 2015
Creating an enabling environment for using
remittances for financing development
The role of public policies