CGD in the News

Forward Thinking on people on the move and the technological progress and productivity they bring with Dany Bahar

April 19, 2023

Why are some countries rich and some poor? A leading economist finds the answer in the interactions of economies with the rest of the world, through trade, capital flows, and—notably—migration. “I think that migration could be the key to economic development that we haven’t discovered yet,” he says.