Economic Debate: Can Nations Prosper by Exporting People?
An economic discussion has emerged questioning whether countries can achieve greater prosperity by focusing on the export of their population rather than traditional goods. This provocative idea explores new perspectives on national wealth and development.
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Can countries grow richer by exporting people, not goods?
That depends where those people end up
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MOST OF THE oil in Kerala is pressed from coconuts. Yet the southern Indian state, famed for idyllic backwaters, fragrant cuisine and an easy-going lifestyle, owes much of its prosperity to barrels of the foul-smelling crude that comes bubbling out of the ground in the Persian Gulf and, normally, is shipped through the Strait of Hormuz. Ever since the Middle East oil boom began half a century ago Keralites have been heading there to work, first as cleaners and construction workers, then as clerk
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