development. It is misdirected because, as we show, the stringency of the List bears an erratic and even counterproductive … relationship to the development level of the targeted countries. The List is also opaque: there have been no public estimates of …, balancing the national interest with evidence-based support for overseas development. …

literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …

Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with … compassionate and political sentiments without clear evidence that the regulations achieve the desired development goals and avoid …

This paper links the two fields of “development traps” and “brain drain”. We construct a model which integrates … explicitly the nature of the regimes to technology and policy parameters. -- Brain drain ; development traps ; human capital …

development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or … Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …