{"id":16279,"date":"2023-10-25T10:25:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T04:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16279"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T02:42:16","slug":"international-migration-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/international-migration-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"International Migration Outlook 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Key findings of International Migration Outlook 2023<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India saw the\u00a0highest migration flows to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development\u00a0(OECD) countries in 2021 and 2022.<\/li>\n<li>In terms of nationalities, 0.13 million Indian citizens acquired the nationality of an OECD country in 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Inflows of refugees from Ukraine reached the highest level on record, OECD-wide, due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war; more than 10 million people have become either internally displaced or refugees in the OECD region.<\/li>\n<li>In terms of workers, migration flows from India (+172 per cent), Uzbekistan (+122 per cent) and Turkey (+240 per cent) rose sharply, making them primary countries of origin after Ukraine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about OECD\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an international\u00a0organisation of 38 countries committed to democracy and the market economy.<\/li>\n<li>Its members are typically democratic countries that support free-market economies.<\/li>\n<li>It was established on Dec. 14, 1960, by 18 European nations, plus the United States and Canada.<\/li>\n<li>Goal: To shape policies that foster prosperity, equality, opportunity and well-being for all.<\/li>\n<li>It publishes economic reports, statistical databases, analyses, and forecasts on the outlook for economic growth worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>The organization also seeks to eliminate bribery and other financial crime worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0maintains a so-called &#8220;black list&#8221; of nations that are considered uncooperative tax havens.<\/li>\n<li>India is one of the many non-member economies with which the OECD has working relationships in addition to its member countries.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Headquarters: Paris, France.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Migration?<\/h3>\n<p>It refers to the movement of people from one place to another, typically involving a change in their permanent or semi-permanent residence. This movement can occur within a single country or across international borders. Migration can be driven by a variety of factors, including economic, social, political, environmental, and personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/governance\/nearly-half-a-million-indians-migrated-to-oecd-countries-in-2021-report-92454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Nearly half a million Indians migrated to OECD countries in 2021: Report<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Migration Outlook 2023 was released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}