The Clearest Path to Global Prosperity: Looser migration restrictions would benefit both rich and poor countries.

Howard W. French in Foreign Policy has a column worth a read:

“This pattern of allowing fear and prejudice to dominate the political discussion around migration is admittedly hard to break, but a growing body of economic research could help. It makes clear that the costs of pandering or giving in to racism when fashioning immigration policy are staggering to rich and poor alike.

In fact, there is probably no more dramatic way of increasing human prosperity in both the receiving societies and in those that generate large population flows than by significantly loosening restrictions on international migration.” (bold added).

French is a professor at the Columbia Journalism School.

KJ