Sweta C. Saxena is a senior economist in the IMF’s Research Department. Her research has focused on policy-relevant macro-financial issues, namely, crises and recoveries, contagion, and exchange rates. Ms. Saxena has published extensively, including in the American Economic Review and the Journal of International Economics. Prior to joining the IMF, she worked at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Ms. Saxena obtained her PhD in economics from the University of Washington and a Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics.
While the recent surge in refugees has brought attention to migration issues, there is already a large population of migrants living in advanced economies, and migration continues to be o...
Más allá de la polémica que suscita a nivel político, la migración tiene sentido en términos económicos. Un nuevo estudio del FMI muestra que, a más largo plazo, tanto los trabajadores ca...
Migration, no matter how controversial politically, makes sense economically. A new IMF study shows that, over the longer term, both high- and low-skilled workers who migrate bring benefi...
