Just on South Africa and migration, as you say a magnet for migration from the region. The country’s emigrants rarely return and net remittances are negative—both a sign of a comparatively weak diaspora community a comparatively large immigrant population for its income level. It certainly isn’t leading in using emigration as a growth strategy, for all it is playing an important role in reducing poverty and deprivation in countries to its North.
Thank you for your response. Does this mean that investment / lending / aid for South Africa is likely to spill over into nice remittance incomes for other African countries? Does their experience with nuclear plants, mining, coal-to-motor fuel conversion and other advanced industries make them a more promising candidate for growth-enhancing investments than are some of the countries that send many emigrants to South Africa?
Just on South Africa and migration, as you say a magnet for migration from the region. The country’s emigrants rarely return and net remittances are negative—both a sign of a comparatively weak diaspora community a comparatively large immigrant population for its income level. It certainly isn’t leading in using emigration as a growth strategy, for all it is playing an important role in reducing poverty and deprivation in countries to its North.
Thank you for your response. Does this mean that investment / lending / aid for South Africa is likely to spill over into nice remittance incomes for other African countries? Does their experience with nuclear plants, mining, coal-to-motor fuel conversion and other advanced industries make them a more promising candidate for growth-enhancing investments than are some of the countries that send many emigrants to South Africa?