Exodus: how migration changes our world. Collier P.

This is one of the most pressing and controversial issues of our time, causing hot disputes and deeply saturated with ideology. Who should be allowed to immigrate, but who doesn’t? What are the arguments for and against the restriction of the number of immigrants? In the “Exodus”, the outstanding economist Paul Collier clearly and concisely describes the consequences of stimulating or containing migration. Based on the original study and numerous reviews of specific cases, he considers this problem from three points of view: the migrants themselves, the people they left, and the societies in which they immigrate. As Collier shows, immigrants from the poorest countries of the world are usually the most educated and ambitious...