Monthly Archives: January 2012

January 31, 2012

The Brain-Drain Panic Returns

While developed countries are angst-ridden over mostly illegal immigration by unskilled workers from developing countries, a different set of concerns has surfaced in Africa, in particular, over the legal outflow of skilled, and even more importantly, highly skilled, people to … Continue reading

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January 4, 2012

America’s Threat to Trans-Pacific Trade

As if undermining the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of global free-trade talks was not bad enough (the last ministerial meeting in Geneva produced barely a squeak), the United States has compounded its folly by actively promoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership … Continue reading

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