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In 2000, the United States ranked second in the world for economic freedom
Today it sits at 14th
 • Ben A. Wajdi
The gap between where you earn and where you spend
It has a name. Geo-arbitrage.
 • Ben A. Wajdi
Something strange happened in development policy during the 1990s
participation, local communities, and empowering ordinary people
 • Ben A. Wajdi
The Seychelles had real assets to work with
a strategic location, a Creole culture suited to bridging differences, and a government capable of coordinating across departments
 • Ben A. Wajdi
the immigrant war
a relentless campaign of exploitation, violence, and discrimination
 • Ben A. Wajdi
Social theorists have been telling us the same story
For fifty years
 • Ben A. Wajdi
This is where their stories end (legally speaking)
Between 2007 and 2016, the United States deported over 2.6 million people to Mexico alone.
 • Ben A. Wajdi
Here's a question most Americans get wrong
on immigration
 • Ben A. Wajdi
The map of poverty was manufactured
Seven decades of aid. Trillions of dollars.
 • Ben A. Wajdi
The $15,000 Baby
How Russian families are trading pregnancies for passports
 • Ben A. Wajdi
Same Credentials. Same City. One Was an "Expat" The Other Was an "Arab"
New research on 48 skilled migrant women in Istanbul exposes who really benefits from global mobility—and what happens to everyone else.
 • Ben A. Wajdi
They called themselves "economic refugees"
Not the migrants you'd expect.
 • Ben A. Wajdi
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