Diaspora for Development in Africa

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Internationales, Paris. During her studies, Ms. Ndiaye-Coïc wrote about migration management in West Africa. Prior to her current consultancy for the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) in Bern, Switzerland, where she is a researcher with the NCCR Trade Regulation, Ms. Ndiaye-Coïc worked as a project officer at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva. At the IOM, Ms. NdiayeCoïc contributed to the drafting of various reports on migration and development and coauthored the IOM publication The MIDA Experience and Beyond, published in January 2010. Ms. Ndiaye-Coïc’s experience in dealing with projects on development for migration has convinced her that all parties—the migrants, their countries of origin, and their countries of destination—need to be involved in migration management issues. Christophe J. Nordman is a research fellow at the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), currently assigned as an economist at Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation (DIAL), a research center on development economics in Paris. Previously he was a research officer of Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the University of Oxford, a research center on education, skills, and labor, where he is an associate research fellow. His research focuses on the functioning of labor markets in developing countries, and more specifically on human capital formation and diffusion, the formation of earnings inequalities across gender and ethnic groups, informal sector and employment vulnerability, and the labor market consequences of international migration. His research is published in books and international academic journals of development and labor economics. He is currently involved in the design and improvement of labor force surveys and surveys on the formation and labor market effects of social networks in Vietnam and West Africa. He has served as a consultant for various international organizations, including the World Bank, the International Labour Organization, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. He received a PhD in Development Economics from University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2002. Marion Panizzon is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Bern and a Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland. She lectures regularly at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, in Geneva, Switzerland; and at the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa, in Arusha, Tanzania, where she teaches about the interface of migration and trade. Her commissioned research includes projects for the


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