Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World

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Center for Global Development, 2005 - Business & Economics - 246 pages

Over the next few decades, global migration is likely to play an influential role in shaping the nature of politics and economies internationally. This timely study illuminates possible implications of migrant flows from a development perspective. The authors survey the magnitude of the poor to rich-country flows, the rich-country policies that are driving them, and the multiple channels through which skilled migration affects development. They provide a rich discussion of the policy options, as they search for those that avoid the worst losses to poor countries while maintaining the most liberal feasible international migration regime.

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1 Introduction
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Skill Focused?
59
The Effect of Prospective
73
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About the author (2005)

Devesh Kapur is an associate professor of government and Asian studies at the University of Texas-Austin and a nonresident fellow at the Center for Global Development. John McHale is a professor of economics at the Queen's School of Business in Ontario, Canada. He was previously an associate professor of economics at Harvard University. He is a member of the Weatherhead Initiative on international migration at Harvard and is a consultant to the Office of the Chief Economist at the World Bank on migration-related projects.

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