Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain

International migration will be one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century. Lower transaction and communication costs have already greatly eased the formation of migrant networks and reduced migration costs, for long a deterrent to migration from developing countries to developed countr...

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Main Author:	de Melo, Jaime
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	Brain Drain income international migration liquidity migrant networks migrants remittance remittance flows Remittances skilled migrants
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4452

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spelling	okr-10986-44522021-04-23T14:02:17Z Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain de Melo, Jaime Brain Drain income international migration liquidity migrant networks migrants remittance remittance flows Remittances skilled migrants International migration will be one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century. Lower transaction and communication costs have already greatly eased the formation of migrant networks and reduced migration costs, for long a deterrent to migration from developing countries to developed countries. Migratory pressures will also increase as falling dependency ratios in developing countries contribute to the swelling of their labor forces. Remittances from migrants to developed countries should then help to close the developing-country developed-country divide. 2012-03-30T07:12:35Z 2012-03-30T07:12:35Z 2007-05-30 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4452 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank Journal Article Uruguay
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description	International migration will be one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century. Lower transaction and communication costs have already greatly eased the formation of migrant networks and reduced migration costs, for long a deterrent to migration from developing countries to developed countries. Migratory pressures will also increase as falling dependency ratios in developing countries contribute to the swelling of their labor forces. Remittances from migrants to developed countries should then help to close the developing-country developed-country divide.
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title	Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain
title_short	Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain
title_full	Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain
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Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain

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