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Oct
17
2006
12:00—1:30 PM
October 02, 2006
Accurate measurement of the effect of migration on the income of potential migrants is a crucial factor in determining the impact that lowering barriers to migration would have on world income. However, measuring this effect is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general populat...
New from CGD
September 18, 2006
CGD non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett argues in a new, bound-to-be-controversial book that increased labor mobility would do more for poor people in developing countries than aid, successful trade reform, and debt relief combined. Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Labor Mobility will ...
BOOKS
September 12, 2006
This controversial book argues that irresistible demographic forces for greater international labor mobility are being checked by immovable anti-immigration ideas of rich-country citizens. Pritchett proposes breaking the gridlock through policies that support development while also being political...
Sep
15
2006
2:00—3:30 PM
September 11, 2006
In Let Their People Come, Pritchett argues that irresistible demographic forces leading to greater international labor mobility are being checked by immovable anti-immigration ideas of citizens of rich countries. He proposes breaking the deadlock through policies that support development while also ...
WORKING PAPERS
August 11, 2006
The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to rich countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain. Research on the issue has been hampered by lack of data. How many doctors and nurses have left Africa? Which countries did they leave? Where have they settled? To answer these questi...
New from CGD
July 10, 2006
As leaders from the world's most powerful nations prepare to gather in St. Petersburg, Russia, this weekend, observers with even a modicum of memory could be forgiven for wondering whether the leaders suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder. After all, it was only one year ago that G-8 leaders met in...