We place labor flows, involving both highly skilled professionals and unskilled workers,
within the framework of research on world cities. These flows are central to understanding …

The debate on migration and development has swung back and forth like a pendulum, from
developmentalist optimism in the 1950s and 1960s, to neo-Marxist pessimism over the …

Network diasporas are but the latest bridge connecting developing economy insiders, with
their risk-mitigating knowledge and connections, to outsiders in command of technical know …

This paper argues that mobility and migration have always been an intrinsic part of human
development. Migration can be considered as a fundamental capabilitiesenhancing freedom …

The liberal legal ideal of protection of the individual against administrative detention without
trial is embodied in the habeas corpus tradition. However, the use of detention to control …

The Frontiers of Democracy offers a comprehensive examination of restrictions on the vote
in democracies today. For the first time, the reasons for excluding people (prisoners …

This paper looks at the relationship between migration between developing countries–or
countries of the global'South'–and processes of human development. The paper offers a …

Catch Up analyzes the evolution of developing countries in the world economy from a long-
term historical perspective, from the onset of the second millennium but with a focus on the …

This paper situates globalisation in historical perspective to analyse its implications for
development. It sketches a picture of globalisation during the late nineteenth and twentieth …

Resurgent Asia analyses the phenomenal transformation of Asia, which would have been
difficult to imagine, let alone predict, fifty years ago, when Gunnar Myrdal published Asian …