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"Part of the rationale for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was that it would increase trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, creating jobs and reducing migration to the United States. Since poor data on illegal flows to the United States make direct measurement...
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In Indonesia, the World Bank worked with the government to develop new approaches to discourage open defecation and … increase the number of toilets in poor, rural areas. An impact evaluation of a program to foster demand for toilets by raising …
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destinations: firms that export to high-income destinations hire more skills and pay higher wages than firms that export to middle-income …This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. The authors identify … two mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First …
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, skilled emigration, and remittance flows for 210 countries and 15 regional and income groups. Some interesting facts emerge …-South migration is larger than migration from the South to the high-income countries belonging to the Organization of Economic … Cooperation and Development (OECD). High-income non-OECD countries such as the Gulf countries are also major destinations for …
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