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And since then, populist Euroskepticism has been on the rise, particularly in Italy, owing to its frontline position in the migrant and refugee crisis.
We can disagree with him on railway reform or the migrant crisis, on tomorrow’s budget or future spending cuts, on his indifference to former political veterans, or his obsession with being on the cutting edge.
The fate of the many migrant and asylum seekers caught in Greece is particularly heart-rending.
The ongoing migrant and refugee crisis demands a new, comprehensive, and coherent global-governance framework.
Today’s migrant and refugee flows are an inseparable part of a complex new geopolitical reality, and they can no longer be addressed effectively as discrete issues.
But by far the biggest transfer of assets from rich countries to the developing world takes place through migrant workers’ remittances.
Governments in Europe and elsewhere should therefore consider carefully what other forces will be at work if and when migrant workers are sent home.
So they should weigh tax breaks that might entice employers to keep migrant workers on the payrolls, as this would probably be a much more efficient way to support these poor countries.
If, however, the migrant remained an employed and law-abiding resident for a specified period, the bond would be divided between the company that had posted it (as a reward for having screened a productive foreign worker) and the Colombian government (as compensation for productivity loss and the costs of educating and training the worker).
Finally, if the migrant returned to Colombia after a specified period of working productively in the US, neither country would need compensation.
For China’s 270 million migrant workers, benefit portability could be decisive in shifting the balance from fear and precautionary saving to security and discretionary spending.
Thanks to such monitoring, Foshan’s municipal- and county-level governments recognized a dramatic restructuring in global supply chains and responded accordingly, such as by improving housing and health care, providing such social services even to migrant labor, and addressing excessive pollution.
Such migration would also be good for the developing countries, because migrant workers send home remittances.
Today, with many developing countries, including a majority of the countries in the Middle East, serving as some of the world’s main labor exporters, might it be time to consider the formation of an OPEC-like cartel for migrant workers?
When we think about migrant labor, we think of low-skill work in agriculture, construction, services, and domestic work.
As exporters trained their migrant workforces, demand for their labor would grow and spark competition among venders rather than suppliers, thus fueling a virtuous cycle of higher wages and even more skills training.
Because a cartel would make these market changes more discernible, labor exporters would be able to respond and adjust their worker-training systems accordingly, increasing labor importers’ ability to recruit migrant workers better suited to the available jobs.
A low denomination security (of, say, $1,000), carrying a 3-4% interest rate, might be attractive to migrant workers who currently earn minimal interest on deposits held in host-country banks.
The bonds should be available to all investors, not just migrant savers, and be distributed widely, not kept on the books of a few investment banks.
That way, large sums could be mobilized for development at low, stable interest rates, without diminishing migrant workers’ incentive to save.
This joblessness naturally makes the EU a magnet for migrant labor.
Migrant workers may send money home for a variety of reasons: to maintain good family relations, to ensure an inheritance, or to re-pay a loan from elders.
In addition to providing their families at home with a much-needed source of stable income, expatriate migrant workers send home even more money when catastrophe strikes.
After all, migrant workers may be relatively well off by standards at home, but they struggle to earn a decent living in their host countries.
In contrast, it might be more difficult for a migrant in a distant country to assess the extent to which family members back home, knowing that they can always rely on the remittances, are responsible for other forms of income loss.
Trump’s Psychopathology Is Getting WorseNEW YORK – Seemingly every day now, US President Donald Trump escalates his policy and personal attacks against other countries and their heads of state, the poor and the weak, and migrant families.
Most recently, Trump has championed the heartless separation of migrant children from their parents.
Consider, for example, his repeated claims that the vague outcome of his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un constitutes an end to the nuclear threat posed by Kim’s regime, or his blatant lie that Democrats, rather than his own policies, caused the forced separation of migrant children from their parents at the southern border with Mexico.
Despite their vaunted credo of “scientific development,” the Hu-Wen leadership has failed to do much to help peasants and migrant workers, who have been hit hard by staggeringly high property prices, unaffordable health care, and rising education costs.
And the children of migrant workers in urban areas must be granted full access to the education system.
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