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The relationship between international migration, trade, and development: some paradoxes and findings


Abstract: The interactions among trade, international migration, and economic development in migrant-sending areas are complex, and paradoxes abound. This paper summarizes global trends in world migration and remittances, discusses some paradoxes surrounding the trade-migration-development relationship, and reports findings from new research on Mexico-to-U.S. migration, using data from rural Mexico. It concludes with some thoughts about designing policies to raise the development potential of remittances in migrant-sending areas.

Keywords: Emigration and immigration; International trade; Economic development; Developing countries; Emigrant remittances; Mexico;

Status: Published in Migration, trade, and development: proceedings of the 2006 conference on migration, trade, and development

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Part of Series: Proceedings

Publication Date: 2006

Pages: 199-212