Ten years ago, it was typical for 20 percent or more of the money a migrant worker sent to his or her family in a developing nation to be eaten up by transmission costs. Thanks to factors including increased competition and technological advances, that percentage has dropped steadily over the past decade, so that […]
The holiday travel season, the beginning being marked by International Migrants Day on December 18, is winding down. Even this traditional and commonplace form of travel is in some way facilitated or restricted by the human right to migration. Though primarily preoccupied by its connection with the features of the human right to work, migration […]
I recently came across an interesting paper at Brookings by Wang Feng, The Future of a Demographic Overachiever: Long-Term Implications of the Demographic Transition in China. The title of the paper is self-explanatory as to the subject. Through his research, Wang found a consistent continual demographic decline in China. This is not necessarily news, but […]