Development programs can promote growth while also reducing brain drain in low-income countries
Silhouette of people with luggage walking in a row. Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock.com Globalization has facilitated physical mobility, enabling international migration to increase from 92 million in 1960 to 244 million in 2017. Traditionally, rising migration flows have been attributed to a lack of economic development in origin countries. Would-be migrants, the argument goes, decide to move primarily in search of higher wages and income abroad. A competing hypothesis on the migration-development relation The “migration transition hypothesis,” first set forth by Wilbur Zelinsky in his semina...
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