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  Women and girls failed: the Burundian refugee response in Tanzania

  Refugees International, 2015

  Since April 2015, political instability and violence has rocked Burundi, forcing an estimated 220,000 people to flee to neighbouring countries. Approximately half of these refugees are women, and around half of the many women who reported gender-based violence (GBV) upon reaching refugee camps in Tanzania required post-rape care.
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  Empowered and safe: economic strengthening for girls in emergencies

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2014

  Even in times of peace and stability, adolescent girls are among the most vulnerable members of society in low-income countries. In times of emergency, this vulnerability is multiplied, with girls facing various rights violations, including high rates of gender-based violence (GBV).
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  Humanitarian trends and challenges for the Pacific region

  Overseas Development Institute, 2015

  This briefing report sets out the current humanitarian challenges and trends for the Pacific region in the post-2015 era.
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  Carbon intensification and poverty reduction in Kenya: lessons from the Kenya agricultural carbon project

  2012

  This paper focuses on the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project, implemented by the NGO Vi Agroforestry, which is designing and implementing climate finance projects in the agricultural sector.
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  Topic Guide: Stepping out of Agriculture

  Evidence on Demand, 2015

  This Topic Guide from Evidence on Demand provides expert information on how members of smallholder households leave agriculture for better-paying businesses and jobs.
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  Taking Africa’s irregular migrants into account: trends, challenges and policy options

  African Development Bank, 2014

  A migrant is considered as irregular when he does not meet the immigration laws’ requirements while entering, residing or working in a given transit or receiving country.
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  International Remittances and Family Expenditure Patterns: The Philippines’ Case

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008

  This paper examines the influence of overseas remittances to patterns of family expenditures in the Philippines using a matched dataset of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) and the Labor Force Survey (LFS). The objective is to study whether or not remittances influence budget allocation of families receiving these income transfers.
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  Comparing the 1999 and 2007 Philippine NTA Estimates and Examining the Effects of a Definitional Change of Overseas Workers' Remittances

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014

  This paper compares the estimates of the 1999 and 2007 Philippine National Transfer Accounts (NTA) and examines the implications of using two alternative treatments or definitions of overseas Filipino workers` (OFW) remittances in the NTA.
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  The micro level impact of foreign remittances on incomes in Bangladesh: a measurement approach using the propensity score

  Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2008

  The importance of foreign remittances in the economy of Bangladesh is widely recognised and requires little reiteration. Along with the readymade garment (RMG) sector and non-farm activities in the agricultural sector, remittances have been identified as one of the three key factors that have been responsible for reducing the overall incidence of poverty in Bangladesh.
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  Circular migration and employment in Southern Africa

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2009

  This paper proposes that non-temporary circular migration creates and sustains ‘circular migration flows’, which are the outcome of the continuous interaction between sending and receiving countries that is created and sustained by migration and by transnational networks.

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