Preliminary research by GreenfieldCities shows that the social-economic case for long term international commitment to safe havens, enabling sustainable development is overwhelmingly positive. Not only can current financial costs to European host countries surpass €170,000 per refugee, it is also largely charity money with highly insecure returns, or even no lasting value creation. All that charity money has to be brought up by OECD tax payers under current policies.
The GreenfieldCities approach slashes the above amount in half, and is mostly in the form of value creating investments, offering strong social-economic and environmental returns. The latter means that funding can be a public-private mix, reducing the burden on tax payers.