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By Sam Bowman

What’s the single best policy change that could be made to reduce poverty and boost global GDP growth? Many would say the elimination of trade barriers. Unfortunately, many would probably suggest a ‘big push’ of development aid money. But a new paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives argues that the most positive change that could be made by far is the elimination of barriers to migration.

The paper, which is free to download, compares the existing academic estimates for g...

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