Some myths leave us to wonder who dreamed them up. Other myths we can observe as they are born. Last week a UK minister created an economic myth about immigration to his country, and it's useful to watch how and why it arose.

First the facts: In...

I'm delighted to share the news that the U.S. government added Haiti to the list of more than 50 countries eligible to participate in the H-2 visa program for temporary and seasonal workers, ending a longstanding policy of excluding Haitians from America's largest temporary employment-based visa program. This...

December 18th will be International Migrants Day. I'm delighted, because continued migration flows across the globe will add trillions of dollars to the beleaguered world economy.

You're not planning a big party on the 18th, you say? Neither are the various pressure groups working hard...

Economists who study globalization pay lots of attention to trade and capital flows. They have spent generations researching how much better off the world could be if there were fewer international obstacles to voluntary, mutually beneficial trade and investment. If there's a twenty-dollar bill on the sidewalk--economists' old catch-phrase meaning...

Back in 2004, a major new development project started in Bar-Sauri, Kenya. This Millennium Village Project (MVP) seeks to break individual village clusters free from poverty with an intense, combined aid package for agriculture, education, health, and infrastructure. The United Nations and Columbia University began the...

President Obama spoke last week on overhauling U.S. immigration. He went straight to the thorniest issue -- what to do about the millions of unauthorized migrants already here. Obama wants a third path between the extremes of blanket amnesty and mass deportation.

That compromise approach, he goes on...