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Migration and pro-poor policy in West Africa
Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004This paper reports on the findings of a survey conducted on migration and pro-poor policy in West Africa. The paper identifies the importance of migration to the poor, discusses migration policies, key issues and policy gaps in each country, as well as the region as a whole.DocumentMigration and pro-poor policy in Africa
Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004This paper reports on the findings of a survey on migration and pro-poor policy in Africa.DocumentThe collaborative response
Forced Migration Review, 2005This brief article discusses the commitment by the UN, NGO’s and governments for a collaborated response to IDPs.DocumentThose in Kayes: the impact of remittances on their recipients in Africa
European Development Research Network, 2004Using data collected in the Kayes area in Western Mali this paper investigates whether migration and remittances are an impediment to technical efficiency in agriculture because migration as an insurance mechanism can give rise to moral hazard.Findings of the study include:although migration has certainly helped the adoption of improved agricultural technology, migrant households do notDocumentRemittances: the new development mantra?
Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2003This paper examines remittance flows to developing countries.DocumentMigrant remittances and development cooperation
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2005This report, commissioned by the Norwegian Development Agency (Norad), provides an overview of the development issues relating to remittances with the aim of providing a basis for making sound decisions on whether, how, and where to proceed with initiatives in this field.It examines the financial scale of the contribution which remittances make to developing country economies (particularly relaDocumentDefining, measuring and influencing sustainable return: the case of the Balkans
Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004This paper provides an overview of recent policy interest in refugee and IDP returns, globally as well as to and within the Balkans, and focuses on issues surrounding the sustainability of return.The paper argues that the development of robust indicators of the sustainability of return could assist in monitoring the impact of return programmes.DocumentGlobalization, immigrants' transnational agency and economic development in their homelands
Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2004This paper looks at transnational immigrant communities living in Canada, focusing on the issues of remittance market development in the south, and some of the most recent initiatives that rich countries and some international development authorities have either launched or are contemplating to improve remittance market efficiency.DocumentThink local, act global: labour migration and emerging challenges of policymaking in a transnational world
Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2004This paper looks at the dynamics of international migration of labour as part of a process of mutual interdependence between sending and host areas.DocumentDiaspora, migration and development in the Caribbean
Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2004This paper examines the developmental impact of the growth of the diasporic economy on Caribbean countries, focusing on the issues of remittances, diasporic exports, brain drain, as well as the new health and security risks associated with migration and mobile populations.It asks whether the benefits of migration such as remittances, diasporic exports and the vent of surplus population redressPages