title: Migration and development:  implications and recommendations for policy.
abstract: "The conventional wisdom on the relationship between migration and development in the Caribbean Basin can be summarized in two propositions: that migration from the region to the United States is an 'escape valve,' benefitting the sending countries; and that development reduces the pressures for migration.  This article examines both propositions and concludes they are misleading or inaccurate.  Emigration costs the sending countries in serious ways and often impedes development.  Secondly, development does not stem migration; in the short-term, rapid development is more likely to exacerbate the pressures of migration than to reduce those pressures.  Besides analyzing the relationship between migration and development in the Caribbean Basin, this article offers development proposals to reduce pressures leading to migration and enhance the positive effects of migration on development."
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D017691:Caribbean Region; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D012922:Social Change
keywords: Americas; Caribbean; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; International Migration; Migration; North America; Policy; Population; Population Dynamics; Social Development