For nearly four decades now, the conventional wisdom has been that the migration of human capital (skilled workers) from a developing country to a developed country is detrimental to the developing country. However, this perception need not hold. A well designed migration policy can result in a...

Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to assimilation are high. We show that when interpersonal comparisons affect...

As of February 5, 2021, India ranks second in terms of total Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with more than 10 million positive cases in the world. This has a huge negative impact on the poorer almost 30% of its population severely. In this backdrop, the present study tries to understand why the...

While Mexico's southern states differ substantially in terms of their migration profile, many of the issues confronted by the three states are the same. In this paper, we focus on five questions: (a) How large are migration flows, and what can be expected in the future?; (b) To what extent does...

With the realization of massive infrastructure development in the last five years, including the disbursement of Village Funds of Rp 187 trillion since four years ago, it is time for the Government to re-navigate its development goals by elaborating development. Now, the Government focuses on...

Indonesia, together with China, Vietnam, and India, is projected to experience strong growth at least until 2020 before finally experiencing a slowdown in the next period. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in its study in 2015 also mentioned that Indonesia would become the fourth economy in...

In 2018, the global economic recovery continued. At least this can be seen from the increase in commodity prices, which have a significant effect on production activities such as petroleum, coal, and Crude Palm Oil (CPO). The need for these commodities shows that an increase in global demand is...

This paper assesses the heterogeneous effects of immigration on economic growth depending on both the origin and the destination countries. Following the development of a simple growth model augmented by the embodied human capital of immigrants, we estimate the growth equation using a...

When President Felipe Calderón took office he declared a war on drug lords, thus initiating a war of attrition which has claimed more than 40,000 lives in the last 5 years. In this chapter I document how this escalation of violence has led Mexicans living close to the northern border to migrate...

When President Felipe Calderón took office he declared a war on drug lords, thus initiating a war of attrition which has claimed more than 40,000 lives in the last 5 years. In this chapter I document how this escalation of violence has led Mexicans living close to the northern border to migrate...