Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Western politicians are usually fixated on how many people migrate to their country. What they fail to notice is the record numbers of people leaving. This will have profound economic consequences not just for the places that emigrants leave—but also the countries that they move to.
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