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"Too often, migrants live in fear," Ban told delegates. "We need to create more channels for safe and orderly migration."
Ian Goldin, professor of globalization and development at Oxford University, referred to the meeting as "a ray of light... in what is otherwise an extremely cloudy environment for migration and development."
Goldin cited a World Bank study that found that changes in national migration policies that increase the flow of migrants even minimally bring significant economic benefits to sending and receiving countries, in addition to transforming the lives of individual migrants and their families.
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