Brain Drain Policy Debate: Doctors Emigrating From Africa
The policy challenge is to align the interests of the migrants with the source and destination communities, not how to stop the economic development of people.
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Migration
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Why the Impoverished Need to Move to the Cities With the Highest Housing Prices
On poverty traps and the paradoxes of migration.
The Great Creative Class Migration
The demand for labor explains a lot of migration patterns. Where the uneducated once moved to staff large industrial centers, now those with the means and a college education flock to feed the Innovation Economy that is rising from their ashes.
Displacing Poverty
Our metrics of urban neighborhood health fail to capture individual success stories, which is why we see South Central Los Angeles, which has a history of successfully encouraging social mobility, as a place with persistent poverty.
Detroit Saved
In trying to figure out what went wrong in the Motor City, we reveal how little we know about cities and what makes them successful.
Detroit Postmortem
Forget all of the obituaries filled with talk of brain drain and population decline. Magical things are still happening in Detroit.