ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the consequences for developing countries of skilled migration. Thus. I ignore consequences for developed countries, and those related to low-skilled migration. I wish to argue four points. First, the forces that create pressures for the global migration of workers are likely to remain strong at least over the next half century. Governments must accommodate themselves to this fundamental likelihood, and focus on managing it and mitigating its negative consequences rather than reversing it. Secondly, global migration is a powerful engine for the betterment of individuals and societies by making the global allocation of labour more efficient and by allowing people to free themselves from the contingencies of their birth and join societies whose prosperity, sociocultural values, institutions, and way of life they find more attractive.
