Week 2: Migration and inclusive growth in Africa

Introduction

Welcome to Week 2 of the course. Last week, you looked at inclusive growth, which has become a widely discussed concept over the last decade. It is:

  • useful for making us consider both the economic and non-economic dimensions of development
  • an antidote to prioritising economic growth over all other considerations, and as a way of addressing the growing inequalities that have accompanied recent growth periods
  • a general concept that organisations like the OECD apply to a wide range of countries, sectors and groups.

This week, we want to focus on how inclusive growth and migration might be linked. The overarching question is: how does inclusive growth enrich our understandings of migration and development? In addressing this question, we focus mainly on two of the course learning outcomes:

  1. Understand the main debates and dimensions of inclusive growth.
  2. Appreciate and apply some of the methodologies for trying to measure inclusive growth.

2.1 Looking at migrants