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CGD in the News
December 18, 2014
Researchers have examined the size of economic losses caused by current restrictions on international migration, and the findings are frankly remarkable. As development economist and world-leading migration expert, Michael Clemens, puts it, “The few estimates we have should make economists&rsq...
CGD in the News
November 24, 2014
Why should the rich get to take all that wealth with them when they move? Why should they be able to walk out of the country with resources that they have accumulated largely by dint of their history in the U.S.? We don’t let them walk out with a share of the mineral wealth of public lands or ...
CGD in the News
October 24, 2014
Well, their best bet is immigration, legal or otherwise. Not to belabor the obvious here, but where you live determines how much you can make. The same person with the same education and the same skills can make seven times more working in the United States than in Haiti, according to economists Mic...
CGD in the News
August 04, 2014
Congress closed for the August recess this weekend without passing legislation to address the child refugee crisis on the Mexican border. Nearly 60,000 unaccompanied children, most from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, have entered the U.S. across that border in the last nine months, fleeing sp...
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July 23, 2014
In the UK, the heated public debate over immigration does not always take account of all the evidence of the effects of migration on receiving countries. In this CGD Europe research seminar, Pierre-Louis Vezina discusses his recent research paper "Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat...
Blog Post
July 16, 2014
Deadly violence in US neighbors has once again grabbed Americans’ attention. An unprecedented wave of Central American children has been arriving at the Southwest US border this year, often fleeing gang violence linked to the narcotics trade. Many of them come from Honduras, an epicenter of th...