Dany Bahar

A migrant exits a bus during early morning hours following a travel from Texas, outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., July 30, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Politicians are playing politics with refugees, but these workers are exactly what the US economy needs

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Ukrainian refugees form a long line to cross the borderline in Medyka, southeastern Poland on March 12, 2022. More than 1.4 million Ukrainians have crossed into Poland since last two weeks, the largest influx the country has seen since World War II. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

What can policymakers in countries receiving Ukrainian refugees learn from other countries’ experiences?

Monday, July 18, 2022

image of migrant along US-Mexico border

Who are the 1 million missing workers that could solve America’s labor shortages?

Dany Bahar and Pedro Casas-Alatriste

Thursday, July 14, 2022

FILE PHOTO: A researcher plants a semiconductor on an interface board during a research work to design and develop a semiconductor product at Tsinghua Unigroup research centre in Beijing, China, February 29, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo

Smarter immigration policies could help alleviate the semiconductor shortage

Greg Wright, Dany Bahar, and Ian Seyal

June 17, 2022

Ordinary train passengers walk past a signpost for arriving refugees from Ukraine placed on an access to the platforms of the main station.

Countries should seize the opportunity to take in Ukrainian refugees—it could transform their economies

Dany Bahar, Chris Parsons, and Pierre-Louis Vezina

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Trucks pick up shipping containers at the Port of Savannah in Georgia. The supply chain crisis has created a backlog of nearly 80,000 shipping containers at this port, the third-largest container port in the United States, with around 20 ships anchored off the Atlantic coast, waiting to offload their cargo. A shortage of truck drivers to transport goods from warehouses to retailers has caused shipping containers to be backed up at the port. (Photo by Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

President Biden, tear down those walls and let immigrants take jobs in high demand

Thursday, February 24, 2022

A college student wearing a wearable-sensing-based "glove" controls the robotic hand for maneuvers at a gadgets design competition at Harbin Engineering University in Harbin city, northeast China's Heilongjiang province, 2 December 2018.A gadgets design competition was held in Harbin Engineering University on 2 December 2018, attracting 16 student entrepreneurial groups to participate in. A bionic robotic hand stole the limelight at the competition. Through wearable-sensing-based "glove", the robotic hand can make flexible and accurate maneuvers, attracting the attention of many students.No Use China. No Use France.

Immigration is the key to emerging markets becoming innovation hubs

Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Sara Signorelli

Monday, February 14, 2022

An Ethiopian Airlines Cargo terminal worker looks on as he offloads a shipment of Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines that arrived under the COVAX scheme, at the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 19, 2021. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Is the world now paying the price of not doing enough to help developing world COVID-19 vaccination efforts?

Friday, January 7, 2022

Workers are pictured, near the exit of the southbound lanes of the double deck State Route 99 highway tunnel, under construction in Seattle, Washington, U.S., March 27, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Redmond

Immigration as an engine for reviving the middle class in midsized cities

Dany Bahar and Greg Wright

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Odalys Paez waits to receive a remittance at a Western Union office, in Havana, Cuba, October 28, 2020. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

Remittances: One more thing that economists failed at predicting during COVID-19

Thursday, July 1, 2021