Bimal Ghosh is Senior fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Geneva, Switzerland and Emeritus Professor at Colombia Graduate Institute of Public Administration, Bogota, Colombia. Previously, he  served for many years as a Senior Director /Senior consultant in the United Nations system

1. Why a multilateral agreement on migration is so important and yet why so difficult to achieve it.- 2. How valid are these constraints.- 3. Attempts at reaching a multilateral agreement on migration: a synoptic history.- 4. The New York Declaration and the 2018 Global Compact on Migration.- 5. What makes the Compact incomplete and lopsided.- 6. Conclusions.