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The Global Forum on Migration and Development summit meeting in Berlin showed that global leaders are increasingly focusing on the role of development aid and technical cooperation in stemming the migration crisis. As the enormous flow of migrants and refugees from Africa, the Middle East and South Asia continues, development cooperation will be crucial for providing people will quality livelihoods in their home countries, while creating opportunities for safe, legal migration. This follows the recent United Nations meeting in Geneva to continue preparations for negotiating the Global Compact on Migration. At these events governments recognized the importance of development as a means to mitigate high-risk migration and flight, but development solutions will need to go beyond short-term job creation and bilateral labour migration programmes, and address the political and social issues that force people to leave their home countries.
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