Dany Bahar

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

Venezuelan migrants react when members of the Bolivarian National Guard (not pictured) try to stop them on their way to the border between Venezuela and Colombia, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in San Cristobal, Venezuela October 12, 2020. Picture taken October 12, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Eduardo Ramirez

Venezuelan refugees and their receiving communities need funding, not sympathy

Dany Bahar and Meagan Dooley

Friday, February 26, 2021

People wearing protective face masks line up to cross the border between Colombia and Venezuela at Simon Bolivar international bridge in Cucuta, Colombia March 12, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Eduardo Ramirez

The US can learn a lot from Colombia about giving rights to undocumented immigrants

Monday, February 22, 2021

Vials of the Sinopharm's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine are pictured in Lima, Peru, February 9, 2021. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

Rich countries have a moral obligation to help poor countries get vaccines, but catastrophic scenarios are overrated

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Caracas/Venezuela - January 30, 2019: Protesters hold banners welcoming Donald Trump aggressive moves on Venezuela and Juan Guaido, the U.S. backed opposition leader declared interim presiden

MAGAzuelans: Trump’s last line of defense

Thursday, January 14, 2021