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But the greatest leverage will undoubtedly come from policies that foster ongoing and rapid migration from the countryside to the cities.
Since 2000, annual rural-to-urban migration has been running consistently at 15-20 million people.
For migration to continue at this pace, China will have to relax the long-entrenched strictures of its hukou, or household registration system, which limits labor-market flexibility by tethering workers and their benefits to their birthplace.
Some home truths about the migration of people need to be remembered and the necessary consequences drawn.
At the moment, our attitude to trade and migration seems to be encapsulated in one simple but contradictory slogan: “Open for business, but closed for foreigners.”
Yet, over the next year or so, several of our former colleagues may recognize that they, too, want some form of emergency brake on migration flows from one EU country to another.
As increasingly extreme weather reshapes migration patterns, the number of displaced people (already at record highs worldwide) will rise, and competition for essential resources (such as water, food, and energy) will increase.
Our estimate of net migration is 7.37% for the nine-month period between April 2017 and February 2018, which represents an annualized migration rate of 9.7%.
And they must develop a rational migration policy.
In rich countries, this weakening has happened as a result of cultural globalization and mass migration; in emerging countries, traditional roles and values are succumbing to rapid urbanization and the rise of a new middle class employed in industry or services.
For example, as China’s median age rises from 34.5 today to 42.5 by 2030, its one-child policy and high rate of internal migration will present unique challenges.
Similarly, today’s political revolt may be following an unstoppable logic, whereby every country must close itself off to trade, migration, and capital flows, or risk losing out in a zero-sum game.
Populist leaders, in particular, have been eager to manipulate the migration debate, using inflated figures and other gross exaggerations to stoke popular fears.
They must publicize the actual figures for migration flows, both into and out of their countries.
Meanwhile, plenty of advanced-country citizens – including 4.9 million UK nationals – are represented in global migration figures.
Of course, there are challenges associated with migration.
It is time for these countries to recognize that the best way to ensure orderly migration is to open legal channels for refugees and migrants.
And the Chinese economy faces serious obstacles to sustainable rapid growth, owing to inefficient state-owned enterprises, growing inequality, massive internal migration, an inadequate social safety net, corruption, and inadequate institutions, all of which could foster political instability.
More recently, however, the pace of migration has slowed substantially, with rural areas retaining 35% of China’s total labor force.
The only significant demand expressed by Prime Minister David Cameron in his recent letter to the EU concerns internal migration.
But the EU’s response to mass migration makes it less likely that the refugee crisis will be resolved in a sustainable way.
The EU’s current myopic, reactive response to mass migration is driven by a zero-sum view of the economy that ignores the far-reaching effects of domestic policy.
Rather than attempting to dissuade mass migration by encouraging and supporting fundamental, long-term economic and political development in countries that are impoverished or wracked by civil strife, EU policymakers tend to intervene after the fact, with pledges of aid and emergency resettlement schemes.
But, because this approach ignores the root causes of migration, it is unlikely to be effective in the long run.
The absence of a framework that addresses the factors driving migration leaves politicians free to attend to their domestic markets, with little thought to the negative political and economic externalities that may be wreaking havoc outside their borders.
A lasting solution to Europe’s migration crisis must take into account the impact developed-country policies have on the rest of the world, including economic instability and political upheaval in many of the countries from which migrants are arriving.
Policymakers should carefully consider the second-order effects of their policies, as they reverberate back on their own economies in the form of disorderly, growing mass migration.
On migration, for example, it must work as one to strengthen its own borders, while helping, through development assistance and security cooperation, the countries from which people are fleeing.
A higher rate of global migration is desirable for four reasons: it is a source of innovation and dynamism; it responds to labor shortages; it meets the challenges posed by rapidly aging populations; and it provides an escape from poverty and persecution.
By contrast, limiting migration slows economic growth and undermines societies’ long-term competitiveness.
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