This report, How Immigrants Contribute to South Africa’s Economy, is a step forward in assessing the contribution of immigration to development and improving the design of migration and development strategies. It builds upon the joint OECD-ILO project, Assessing the Economic Contribution of Labour Migration in Developing Countries as Countries of Destination (ECLM). The project carried out comparable analyses for South Africa and nine other countries – Argentina, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Rwanda and Thailand – to present
a greater understanding of immigration’s economic impacts. Different key components of the economy are explored through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
