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A blog about migration, remittances, and development

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This blog is hosted by Dilip Ratha, lead economist at the World Bank. Its goal is to leverage migration and remittances for development.  
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Help me understand...

I'm not sure I entirely buy into what you are proponing. Are you stating that migrant workers landing in a target country are effectively good for the target country's overall economic stature? What if unemployment is already high in the host country? How will this additional saturation on an already burdened society be a good thing? One assumption I think you are making here is that the migration and immigration are entirely legitimate; it greatly sways the scope if they are not condoned relocations of the personnel involved. I think the "brain drain" you speak of is more relative to the social responsibility of the country's citizenship, not the people moving to and from their homeland.

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