This chapter offers an overview of migration and remittance flows with respect to the Latin American and Caribbean …. Emphasis is given to south–south migration, to the factors that have motivated the out-migration of Latin Americans to the …

Recent research suggests that the welfare gains that would result from removing restrictions on international migration … are large. The long-run impact of a higher level of international migration on the global economy is potentially even …'s net migration in any decade has been neither harmful nor beneficial to growth in real income per capita in that decade, in …