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This paper provides a review of the literature on the development impact of migration and remittances on origin countries and on destination countries in the South. International migration is an ever-growing phenomenon that has important development implications for both sending and receiving...
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economic management in the developed world and the economic models that guide it. The crisis has revealed major market failures … market-state balance, macroeconomic management, globalization, development financing, and public spending. On the one hand … should largely reinforce the Post-Washington Consensus on development that has emerged over the past decade -- a world view …
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of elderly in the world, and below-replacement fertility rates since at least the 1980s. The typology helps identify … development policy priorities for countries in different stages of demographic transition, and opportunities through globalization …
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This study quantifies the outflow of human capital associated with migration from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras since 1990. To measure the outflow of skills and human capital and how this has changed over time, the study uses information on Northern Triangle migrants residing in the...
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immigration draws heavily on Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Mediterranean region. Over one-third of world migration is from …
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This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about refugees today compared with past decades. (i) Refugees today travel longer distances. (ii) Refugees today are less likely to seek protection in a neighboring country. (iii)...
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Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the first time, a global overview of human capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by...
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-examines the trade-migration nexus using a panel spanning several decades, which comprises the majority of world trade and … ties, are on average strongly and positively correlated with migrant networks. Dividing the world into the relatively …
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This paper reviews the existing literature on the impact of migrants networks on the patterns of international migration. It covers the theoretical channels at stake in the global effect of the networks. It identifies the key issues, namely the impact on size, selection and concentration of the...
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and relative terms. The United States has remained the most important migrant destination in the world, home to one fifth … of the world?s migrants and the top destination for migrants from some 60 sending countries. Migration to Western Europe …
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