Will economic development in poor countries cause less migration, or more? this simple
question has tremendous relevance to the future of migration policy as the world develops …

What is the greatest single class of distortions in the global economy? One contender for this
title is the tightly binding constraints on emigration from poor countries. Vast numbers of …

The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve
the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's …

Winner of the first Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph
concerned with the political economy of imperialism, John Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty …

Hunger during pre‐harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and
Sub‐Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural …

It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time--vehemently debated,
steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not …

Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater
liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time …

A “poverty trap” can be understood as a set of self-reinforcing mechanisms whereby
countries start poor and remain poor: poverty begets poverty, so that current poverty is itself …

What underlying long-term conditions set the stage for the Arab Spring? In recent decades,
the Arab region has been characterized by an expansion in schooling coupled with weak …

Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars
alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated sixth edition continues to offer an …