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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
To add to this, it should also be noted that just because a country becomes wealthier doesn't necessarily mean people no longer want to emigrate either. And in many cases it may even have the opposite effect, as greater wealth in a developing country may enable more people to have the ability to leave.
Eg. 3 of Canada's top 10 immigration sources are from other developed nations (US, UK, and France).
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This is an excellent point.
Even if conditions are improving in developing countries, there can be a fairly long transitional period where a country is producing more and more skilled, educated individuals but the type of societal climate (robust institutions, personal safety, a heightened level of "organization", opportunities and environment for their kids) isn't yet in place to the level that those kinds of people would normally expect.
This is 100% what is driving the migration of *choice* immigrants from francophone sub-Saharan Africa to Quebec these days.