Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World pdf

Paul Collier is Deputy Director of the MBA Program. His background includes roles as CFO and General Manager of a listed manufacturing company and Head of Training for a police force. He joined Monash in 2006 after having spent 7 years at Aston Business School in the UK. At Monash Paul has been a Professor of Accounting, Deputy Head of the (then) Department of Accounting & Finance, and Associate Dean for research training. Paul has researched and published in governance, risk management, strategy, management control and performance measurement in both the private and public sectors and has been on the board of several not-for-profit organisations. Paul was appointed Deputy Director of the Monash Business School MBA program in 2017.

Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World pdf by Paul M. Collier

Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined "basic needs," has changed little. InRefuge, Paul Collier and Alexander Betts argue that the system fails to provide a comprehensive solution to the fundamental problem, which is how to reintegrate displaced people into society. Western countries deliver food, clothing, and shelter to refugee camps, but these sites, usually located in remote border locations, can make things worse. The numbers are stark: the average length of stay in a refugee camp worldwide is 17 years. Into this situation comes the Syria crisis, which has dislocated countless families, bringing them to face an impossible choice: huddle in dangerous urban desolation, rot in dilapidated camps, or flee across the Mediterranean to increasingly unwelcoming governments. Refugeseeks to restore moral purpose and clarity to refugee policy. Rather than assuming indefinite dependency, Collier-author ofThe Bottom Billion-and his Oxford colleague Betts propose a humanitarian approach integrated with a new economic agenda that begins with jobs, restores autonomy, and rebuilds people's ability to help themselves and their societies. Timely and urgent, the book goes beyond decrying scenes of desperation to declare what so many people, policymakers and public alike, are anxious to hear: that a long-term solution really is within reach.