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    Examining the impact of climate change on migration through the agricultural Channel: evidence from district level panel data from Bangladesh

    South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, 2014
    This paper studies how changes in climatic variables such as temperature and rainfall impact migration through agriculture. The researchers use district level data for 3 inter-census periods to analyse historical migration related outcomes. We find that fluctuations in temperature and rainfall contributed to a decline in agricultural productivity as measured by revenues from agriculture.
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    Landed power and rural schooling in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1992
    Anecdotal evidence from rural Pakistan suggests that large landlords are opposed to education since it could cause attitudinal changes that challenge the existing order or cause the emigration of potential labour to towns and cities.
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    Terrorism and integration of Muslim immigrants

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    This paper studies the effect that a series of fundamentalist-Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe had on the attitudes of Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration.
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    International labor mobility and employment interactions in Tunisia

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    This paper analyses the international labour mobility-employment nexus in Tunisia in a dynamic general equilibrium framework. The main innovations of the model consist in endogenizing the migration decision, its duration and the remittance rate. Labour demand is disaggregated by sector, skill and age. The production of skills and labor supply are also endogenous.
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    The impact of labor mobility on unemployment: a comparison between Jordan and Tunisia

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    Jordan and Tunisia are two non-oil exporting MENA countries characterised by high unemployment rates and significant migrant populations.
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    The labor mobility-employment nexus: a general equilibrium analysis for Jordan

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014
    While studies on the impact of migration on host countries are still dominant, interest in the emigration impact on the home country's labour market is increasing.
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    Through the keyhole: international migration in Egypt

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014
    Labour migration has become an integral part of the world economy. Egypt, being the most populous country in MENA, has become the largest labour exporter in the region. International migration has been a key feature of the Egyptian economy since the 1970s. In 2006 according to the Census, there were 3.9 million Egyptians abroad.
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    Human resource development and foreign remittances: the case of South Asia

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    Increased stock and quality of human resources leads to growth in remittances, which in turns help developing economies in augmenting the balance of payments. This study focuses on the link between Human Resource Development (HRD), migration and remittances in South Asian economies. Econometric exercise based on data from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka were studies.
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    The challenge of establishing REDD+ on the ground: Insights from 23 subnational initiatives in six countries

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2014
    Since 2007, it has been hoped that REDD+ would deliver on the 3E+ criteria (effectiveness, efficiency, equity, social and environmental co‑benefits) for strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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    Living conditions of displaced persons and host communities in urban Goma, DRC

    Norwegian Refugee Council, 2014
    Goma has been a central point for the reception of displaced persons over the last 20 years of conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Following significant waves of arrivals in 2012 and 2013, due to conflict with the M23 – a militia active in North Kivu from early 2012 to late 2013 – 1 camps around the city were grossly overcrowded.

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