While measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty … offer evidence that a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusory — arising from changes in … remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the origin. Net of that cost, there is …

The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to rich countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain …. But empirical research on the issue has been hampered by lack of data. How many doctors and nurses have left Africa? Which …

It is time to fundamentally reframe the research agenda on remittances, payments, and development. We describe many of … why these questions dominate, the most important of which is that researchers tend to view remittances as states do (as …

, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances …

The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to rich countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain …. But empirical research on the issue has been hampered by lack of data. How many doctors and nurses have left Africa? Which …

The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to developed countries has raised fears of an African medical brain …

raise sending-country and global welfare. This study uses a new database of health worker emigration from Africa to test … that Africa's generally low staffing levels and poor public health conditions are the result of factors entirely unrelated … greater production of health workers in Africa …