Publications

 

 

Diaspora Networks and the International Migration of Skills: How Countries Can Draw on Their Talent Abroad. WBI Development Studies, Edited by Yevgeny Kuznetsov, K4D Program. June 2006.

 

International Migration of Talent and Home Country Development: Towards Virtuous Cycle. Yevgeny Kuznetsov, June 2006. Presentation on Diaspora networks as a tool to open up and reform national innovation systems. (PDF, 853Kb)

 

From Brain Drain to Brain Circulation: Emerging Policy Agenda.  Yevgeny Kuznetsov, WBI, November, 2005. Presentation for the Office of Policy and Strategy at U.S. Citizenship  and Immigration Services (USCIS). (PDF, 644Kb)

 

Global Mobility of Talent from a Perspective of New Industrial Policy: Open Migration Chains and Diaspora Networks.  Yevgeny Kuznetsov, WBI, Charles Sabel, Professor, Columbia Law School. All the very valid concern about brain drain from developing countries not-withstanding, the paper argues for and demonstrates the possibility of win-win positive dynamics benefiting both sending countries and migrants themselves. (PDF, 108Kb)

 

India’s Transformation to Knowledge-Based Economy – Evolving Role of the Indian Diaspora.  Abhishek Pandey, Richard Devane and Yevgeny Kuznetsov, the World Bank, Alok Aggarwal, CEO, Everserves. The key objectives of this paper are to analyze the increasingly important role of the successful Indian Diaspora in facilitating growth and improving process management within the knowledge intensive industries, and to identify and analyze the future opportunities for the Indian knowledge-intensive sectors in the global economy. (PDF, 284Kb)

 

The Role of Home Organizations in Home Countries: Globalscot and Scottish Enterprise. (Paper) Mairi Macrae and Martin Wight, Scottish Enterprise. Globalscot is an international business network of Scots or those with an affinity for Scotland. This paper looks at the experience of developing a Diaspora-based network as an explicit economic development intervention. (PDF, 241Kb)

 

Diaspora’s Contribution to Armenia’s Economic Development: What Drives the First Movers and How Their Efforts Could Be Scaled?  Victoria Minoian and Lev Freinkman, the World Bank. The paper is about ways to expand the Diaspora’s contribution to Armenia ’s long-term development agenda. (PDF, 170Kb)

 

Promise and Frustration of Diasporas: ‘How to’ of Mobilization of Talent Abroad for the Benefit of Countries of Origins.  Yevgeny Kuznetsov, Senior Economist, Knowledge for Development Program, WBI. Structure of the presentation: 1-Context: what is at stake? 2-Objective: towards a new generation of international technology alliances. 3-Emerging models of mobilizing Diasporas of highly skilled: lessons from India, China and other countries 4-Pragmatic Diaspora Initiatives. 5-Conclusions. (PDF, 527Kb)