Many people born in low-income countries would like to leave those countries, but barriers prevent their emigration. Those barriers, according to economists' best estimates to date, cost the world economy much more than all remaining barriers to the international movement of goods and capital...

The mid-nineteenth century set the stage for one of the most successful process of foreign investment in Latin America and particularly in Colombia, at least from the perspective of foreign investors: the construction and operation of the Panama Railroad Co. However, unlike other similar...

We investigate the effect of population aging on international factor flows in a political-economy framework. Political barriers to immigration in developed countries and insecure property rights in developing countries impede factor flows. Taking into account different generations' conflicting...

To examine the effects of heterogeneous labor mobility on the distribution of industries and analyze the subsidy policy for attracting firms, this paper develops an analytically solvable new economic geography model, which incorporates heterogeneous locational preferences and an intra-industry...

The nature of South-South international economic relations has changed significantly in recent decades, especially since the early 1990s. In areas such as trade, investment, labor markets, technology, and policy coordination, regional cooperation between countries of the South and pro-market...

This paper investigates hidden costs of offshoring, i.e. unexpected and often hard to measure costs resulting from the relocation of business tasks and activities outside the home country. Particularly, the paper shows that hidden costs can be explained by the degree of offshoring complexity....

Со второй половины прошедшего десятилетия в экономике России возникло относительно новое явление – массированный вывоз прямых инвестиций (сопоставимый с...

The paper examines the relationship between inward FDI and unskilled migrants for a panel of 23 industries using the new trade theory multivariate model framework for the period 2000-2009, and compares the links with 1985-1999 (first-subperiod) and 1985-2009 (overall period) in a univariate...

The text analyzes the process of construction and operation of the Ferrocarril de Bolívar, which despite its limited extension, generated significant economic activity and a profound change in the dynamics of power in the “Bolivar Grande” (which included several of today's Colombian...

Inflows of remittances to Pakistan are being increasingly viewed as a relatively attractive source of external finance, one that can help to foster development and manage economic shocks. Remittances have become a major source of revenue, surpassing the volume of FDI and official development...