Education, for years a publicly funded system in which critical minds could be nurtured, however imperfectly, from all backgrounds, is becoming once again a luxury for the rich, and a mechanism for producing a compliant and productive workforce of debtors.
But the park would not repeat the "mistakes" of Canary Wharf, he said – the 1980s development has become symbolic of a divided London, with a rich cosmopolitan workforce largely cut off from some of the capital's poorest neighbourhoods.
Southern Sudan is also recruiting health workers from "the rich regional workforce market of East Africa, where there is immense expertise and a culture of hard work," explains Dr. Monywiir.
The incorporation of women into the rich-world workforce provides an analogy: this expanded the labour supply and the scope for specialisation without displacing the "native" male workforce.Rich-world residents nonetheless worry that migrants will gain at their expense.
One estimate, by Harvard's Mr Rodrik, suggests that an increase in temporary migrants from poor countries equivalent to 3% of the rich-country workforce would boost developing countries' incomes by $200 billion a year, more than the new trade round.
With no surge in employment among women, and little appetite for mass immigration, in most of the rich world the workforce looks likely to shrink even if skilled oldies stay employed.Legacy of the voidA smaller workforce need not dampen growth, though, if productivity surges.
The big exception are public-sector workers, typically accounting for 10-20% of the total workforce in rich countries, who for the most part continue to enjoy good defined-benefit pensions.
For rich countries with ageing workforces in particular, gains from importing the young, the energetic and those willing to take risks comfortably outweigh the costs.
Because it would cater to a richer segment of the workforce, it is recommended that the program is financed solely though employers' and workers' contributions, that is, that it avoids government funding.
Women have made huge progress in the workplace, but still get lower pay and fewer top jobs than menSINCE 1970 the proportion of women in the workforce across the rich world has increased from 48% to 64%, a sharp rise but one which nevertheless leaves women in rich countries underemployed compared with women in China.
