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...Sachs, might say that allowing people from destitute places to migrate doesn’t help them where it counts: at home. This Washington Consensus logic asserts that immigration-friendly policies prevent poor states from developing their own economic infrastructure. But perhaps we should care less about Somalia and El Salvador and more about Somalis and Salvadoreños. What citizens of developing countries have as a comparative advantage is cheap labor and little else because of geographical constraints and entrenched, frozen financial and legal institutions. Individuals should be permitted to work in countries with aging and picky populations. There...
...town." That, combined with the city's lively atmosphere, has made picking up on the local hot spots a breeze. Chueca and Malasaña, neighborhoods that Vevers frequents and equates with a cross between New York City's SoHo and East Village, are brimming with restaurants, galleries and nightclubs. El Rastro, the flea market, is one of his regular shopping haunts, as are the surrounding areas for their vintage stores. For a dose of culture and design inspiration, Vevers heads to the Golden Triangle, an intersection of Madrid's three most famous museums?the Prado, the Thyssen-Bornemisza...
...suggest that there are pacifists lurking within ETA's midst. "The difference between Txeroki and Thierry could be that while the former believes in killing all the time, the latter only wants to do it on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays," an anonymous source within the national police told El País newspaper...
JCVD His career and life on the skids, movie stud Jean-Claude Van Damme comes home to Brussels and gets tangled in a bank-heist drama. Director Mabrouk El Mechri weaves real and reel life into a dark meta-comedy. As for the star, he deserves not a black belt but an Oscar...
...called night hike in the highlands of Hidalgo state is a curious testimony to Mexico's identity as an emigrant nation, in which enormous numbers of young men and women continue to risk their lives sneaking into "El Norte" for a perceived better life. Every weekend, dozens of participants pay about $20 apiece to scramble up hills, slide down ravines and run through tunnels pursued by siren-blaring pickup trucks and pumped-up border-patrol agents shouting in accented English. (See pictures of the fence between the U.S. and Mexico...