| AUTHOR | Patricia A. Santos Tomas, Lawrence H. Summers and Michael Clemens |
| ORGANIZATION | Center for Global Development |
| TYPE | Thematic Report |
| DATE | 2009 |
| TOPIC | Migration |
| LANGUAGE | English |
Few doubt that people who migrate from a relatively poor to a relatively rich country improce both their well-being and that of their families. Evidence is also gradually accumulating that migrants make the communities and the countries they left behind better off -- through remittances, return investments, and new norms and ideas they bring and sedn to their home communities. In that sense, international migration is a development phenomenon.
