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Hungary will ease immigration to meet labour shortage

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HUNGARY

The poorly publicised law provides for an entirely new visa system, focused on streamlining guest-worker and skilled worker permits from third countries. It addresses an…

Mexico’s population growth potential may be missed

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MEXICO

Economic growth has been meagre for decades despite increases in the working-age population.

UK public opinion on immigration has shifted

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UNITED KINGDOM

The numbers have increased alarm in the ruling Conservative Party that it will lose further support if the trends persist. However, in contrast to the years preceding the Brexit…

Venezuelan migrants could boost host countries' growth

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LATIN AMERICA

Millions of Venezuelans have fled their homeland in recent years as living standards have deteriorated rapidly, with the vast majority settling in other South American nations…

Costa Rica migration reforms will be limited

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COSTA RICA

It does so in a complicated migratory environment. Migration flows are diversifying and show no sign of abating, anti-migration movements are vocal, press coverage of the issue is…

Canada's immigration policy faces strong test soon

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CANADA

Immigration has been Canada’s main source of population growth since 1995, when its population was below 30 million. Although running counter to trends in the United States and…

Canada's Conservatives are not Trump-style populists

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CANADA

Mulroney represented a centrist strand of conservatism that can appear old-fashioned as current Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre moves the party to the right, but Poilievre…

'Reshoring' from China is slowly but surely underway

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CHINA

However, this is a partial and long-term process that for the rest of this decade is likely to leave China as an integral part of many transnational supply chains. Reshoring will…

US higher education braces for falling student numbers

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US

With many US colleges and universities lacking endowments and already struggling financially, the expected decline in enrolments in the coming years will pose additional…

Wagner leader poses a threat to Putin’s Russia

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RUSSIA

On the back of his mercenaries’ success in Ukraine, he has used social media to berate the defence ministry, the general staff and Putin himself, albeit indirectly, as a doddery…