In short:

1) Kenya uses emigration for economic growth;

2) recruitment is dominated by politicians, who use jobs to enrich themselves and curry favour;

3) Kenya positions itself as a lowest-cost labour option;

4) to this end Kenya also pays little/no attention to its citizens' rights

and male labour permits for countries other than India decline by 8%.

Internal migration and female migration (already low) are largely unaffected, however.

'One of the most promising outcomes from this mission is the budding partnership with the Province of New Brunswick. Unlike other regions, New Brunswick has shown remarkable openness to formalize a Memorandum of Understanding with Kenya... a New Brunswick delegation [will] visit Kenya in November.'

'Canada’s situation mirrors Germany’s: acute shortages in healthcare, technical trades, social care, and green economy sectors.'

'In Ottawa, the delegation’s engagements with Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICAN) and Algonquin College highlighted the critical importance of aligning Kenya’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programs with Canadian standards.'

~80% of Kazakhstan's migrants are in Russia.

In 2024, astonishingly, remittances equalled 49% (!!) of Tajikistan's GDP, most coming from Russia.

The effects for these countries' growth, social mobility, current accounts, debt repayments, currency stability, etc. could be huge.

And a response with some nuance from the Pekingology blog:

The report is below.

(It suggests that to meet government housebuilding targets will take somewhere between 500,000 to 1 million new recruits. Some of them will be in occupations for which construction will need to compete with decarbonisation and defence, like electrical workers.)

Ultimately Denmark's green transition needs long-term, predictable investment, and greater coherency between industrial, skills, and migration policy.

Denmark is not alone in this, but as a relative leader it is striking that it is reported to be falling into the same pitfalls we see elsewhere.

In this context, 'foreign workers will continue to play a crucial role in meeting labour demand for green energy and infrastructure projects.

In construction, the share of foreign nationals and commuters rose from 8 per cent in 2013 to 26 per cent in 2024, particularly in large projects.'

'Many experienced skilled and unskilled workers are expected to have retired by 2035, resulting in a projected loss of 103,000 skilled workers and 60,000 unskilled workers...

Growth in the academic workforce will not offset the loss of vocational and industrial expertise.'