But the most significant route to permanent settlement is the economic migration route.
Moreover, if superior infrastructure is supposed to be the surefire Keynesian route to economic growth, then the European example is certainly unconvincing.
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It sees the EU's population of 500m people and its economic heft as a route to relevance on issues such as climate change.
The things now causing great fear, like the questionable solvency of Greece, are just speed bumps en route to economic growth and higher profits.
He likens it to a "safe cybercafe for children" where they can strengthen their English skills, which can be a route to economic advancement.
The firm's chief operating officer, Ray O'Toole, later told the BBC it was possible that it would continue to operate the route if economic conditions improved.
Yet barring a deus ex machina, such as a foreign-policy crisis, a Tory super-scandal or an improbably rapid economic recovery, a route to victory for the government at the next election is increasingly difficult to envisage.
EMU's route from rhetoric to economic blueprint was a familiar one, if unusually swift.
Hitachi president Hiroaki Nakanishi - en route from the World Economic Forum in Davos to Japan - stopped off to see Mr Jones at the Wales Office in London.
And manufactured exports, initially based on low wages, are the only route we know for rapid economic development.
Ian Jordan, HS2 Ltd director for Leeds, Manchester and Heathrow, said the line would bring major economic benefits and public consultations on the route would start later this year.
But even this painful escape route out of the fiscal and economic mess will be beset by traps and ambushes.
Funded by the Scottish government, the line is expected to open up new economic and educational opportunities for those living along the route and offer an alternative for commuters using the M8.
Iran's better hope, though again frustrated by American political and economic pressure, is to offer the landlocked countries a route to the Gulf or to Europe.
However, Belarus has been able to overcome some of these economic difficulties due to its key location as a transit route for the raw material transported between Russia and other former Soviet Republics to Western Europe, and to large Russian subsidies.
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Alvin Rabushka, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, believes it's only a matter of time before an emerging economic superpower like China or India goes the flat-tax route.
In this case, it is Canadian oil interests who want to use the US as a route to global markets while endangering our waters, risking our economic growth engine, and raising our energy costs.
Although, the concept of fractional ownership has a clear non-tax economic logic to it, there is a particularly compelling tax argument to go this route, thanks to this ruling.
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On the other hand, Europe took an austerity route, but fared no better, and is on the threshold of an economic meltdown.
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Other fears are that the Asian economic recovery will prove less muscular than hoped (the port of Seattle is a major export route to Asia) and that the Department of Justice may carry out its veiled threats to break up Microsoft.
But if raising taxes on rich people is Mr Obama's only route to dealing with America's pensions problem, he will be far from an economic centrist.
The judges, who are also on the EU payroll, said the Council's only legal option to adjust EU salaries because of an economic downturn was under an exceptional clause in the regulations - but the Council had not taken that route.
The Arctic's importance has gained extra strategic and economic significance as melting ice in the polar region strengthens the feasibility of nations to use the Northern Sea Route (NSR) across the top of Russia and the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic archipelago.
Everyone is worried about potential civil strife and its effect on the region, but there is also an economic aspect: while losing trade with Syria might not make a difference to most neighbors, losing the trade route will.
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