Weekly links July 17: African soccer migrants, the public-sector’s impacts on private hiring, rural markets from space, and more… David McKenzie July 17, 2026 This page in: English

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluations/weekly-links-july-17--african-soccer-migrants--the-public-sector With the World Cup final this weekend, the Africa Jobs Fund substack has a post entitled “82% of African players at the World Cup play overseas – is that such a bad thing?”, which discusses issues around migration and brain gain, with soccer players given as one example of a broader phenomenon.