To a significant extent, even support for increasing the value of remittances through new means of transfer has resulted from external pressures (mainly from the World Bank) and shifts in the private sector, rather than government policy changes. In some ways this absence of data is not surprising, since migration is regarded as a free choice and not to be constrained in any way. Even documenting flows has sometimes been perceived in that light, since documenting the extent of skilled migration might demand some resolution of excess skill losses.