The International Migration of Women

MAURICE SCHIFF is a Lead Economist in the International Trade Unit, Development Research Group. He currently directs a Research Program on International Migration and Development has published various articles on the topic and has co-edited a book entitled International Migration, Remittances and the Brain Drain which was published in 2005. He co-directed a research project on Regional Integration which generated a large number of articles in refereed journals, a Symposium Issue of the WBER, the book Regional Integration and Development (published in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), and the Policy Research Report Trade Blocs. He also co-directed an earlier research project entitled 'The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy', which generated a large number of articles, a five-volume series in English and a volume in Spanish. He has also published on game-theoretic analyses of commodity trade policy; social capital; the geography of trade; nutrition; and trade- and FDI-related technology diffusion. His work has included policy analysis and advice in Chile, the Dominican Republic, Mauritius, Morocco, Nicaragua, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, the West Bank and Gaza, and other countries in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, in the areas of trade policy, migration, and agriculture.