Soonhwa Yi

Senior Economist, Development Economics – Global Indicators Group (DECIG), World Bank
Soonhwa Yi is Senior Economist of Migration and Remittance unit (DECMR) under the Development Economics Vice Presidency at the World Bank. Part of her current responsibilities, she manages three of the thirteen Thematic Working Groups of KNOMAD (Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development) - namely, Low-skilled labor migration, Migration, security and development, and Internal migration and urbanization. The work includes ensuring the quality and the delivery of outputs by each thematic working group. Areas of her current research interest includes good practices on promoting low-skilled labor circulation, labor policy responses to aging population, and migration as an adverse shock absorber.
Blogging on: People Move
- Trends in Remittances, 2016: A New Normal of Slow Growth
- Call for papers: Development policies that facilitate internal migration
- Labor migration costs – Too high for low-skilled workers
- Call for Proposals: Value Chain Analysis of Recruitment Costs
- Migration and Development in the East Asia and Pacific Region: Potential to gain from boosting regular migration
- Internal Migration – Improving Welfare of the Rural Poor
- Internal Migration: Opportunities to Speed up the Urbanization Process
- CALL FOR PAPERS: KNOMAD Conference on Internal Migration and Urbanization, Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 28-29, 2014
- Reducing Migration Costs
- Low-skilled labor migration: Korea’s Employment Permit System
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