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Leaving aside the discussion about the optimal use
…we call on the
of resources to facilitate the integration of migrants
international donor
community to provide more and refugees, financing for the Venezuelan crisis

funding to receiving has been supremely modest in both absolute and
countries as part of the relative terms. Accordingly, we call on the

shared responsibility that international donor community to provide more
the international community funding to receiving countries as part of the shared

accepted with the adoption
responsibility that the international community
of the New York Declaration
accepted with the adoption of the New York
(2016)1 and, more recently,
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Declaration (2016) and, more recently, the Global
the Global Compact on
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Refugees (2018). Compact on Refugees (2018).

The possibility of accessing international financial aid together with suitable public policies will

help to ensure the successful integration of Venezuelans and enable receiving communities to

benefit in the medium and long terms from the many economic and social blessings that
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economists attribute to migrants. The Americas could turn this crisis into an opportunity that
will be not only advantageous to the societies of the receiving countries, but also key to

rebuilding Venezuela.

44 United Nations. New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, September 19, 2016,
https://www.acnur.org/5b4d0eee4.pdf.
45 United Nations. Global Compact on Refugees, August 2, 2018, https://www.unhcr.org/gcr/GCR_English.pdf.
46 Bahar, Dany, Why accepting refugees is a win-win-win formula, The Brookings Institution, June 19, 2018,
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/06/19/refugees-are-a-win-win-win-formula-for-
economic-development/.

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