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  Migration, development and poverty reduction in Asia

  International Organization for Migration, 2005

  This document is a report from the The Regional Conference on Migration and Development in Asia, held in Lanzhou, China from 14-16 March 2005.The report focuses on the migration and development experiences of a selected number of Asian countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Pakistan and Viet Nam.
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  Sending money home: a survey of remittance products and services in the United Kingdom

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report provides comparable and accessible information on the products and services available to people wanting to send money home from the UK to developing countries. The report aims to increase transparency on costs, speed of money transfer, and the coverage and customer service that banks, building societies and money transfer operators offer in the UK.
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  Dynamics of remittance utilization in Bangladesh

  International Organization for Migration, 2005

  This report looks at the importance of remittances for the economic development of the origin countries of migrant communities. The report takes Bangladesh as a case study.The report answers the following three questions: what is the impact of remittances on households and the broader community in Bangladesh?
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  Drivers of escape and descent: changing household fortunes in rural Bangladesh

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2004

  This paper gives an analysis of contrasting dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh. In using a livelihoods framework, the author contrasts the fortunes of households that ascend out of poverty, with those who have fallen into poverty.
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  Internal migration and the development nexus: the case of Bangladesh

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper reviews the relationships between migration and development in Bangladesh, focussing on conditions and entitlements in the labour market and the consequences of migration, including remittances and their effects on poverty and inequality.
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  Migration as a livelihood strategy of the poor: the Bangladesh case

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper outlines the history of migration from Bangladesh; identifies the numbers and profile of international migrants; examines labour market conditions and remittance flows; and analyses government policies and programmes for managing migration.
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  Environmentally induced migration from Bangladesh to India

  Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India, 2003

  Environmental crisis in the rural areas of developing countries is increasingly becoming an important cause of cross-border migration of population and South Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. Such movement of population in the Indo-Bangladesh context is generating a range of destabilizing socio-political, economic, ethnic and communal tensions in India.
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  Labour migration in Asia: trends, challenges and policy responses in countries of origin

  International Organization for Migration, 2003

  This book explores the new patterns and trends that are emerging in labour migration in Asia, which are affected by not just the labour market, but also national and social circumstances.
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  Don't fence them in. Quest for sustainable livelihoods keeps millions on the move

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Why do so many people in developing countries leave their homes and travel long distances to make a living? This puzzle prompted studies recently reported on by researchers at the Poverty Research Unit at the University of Sussex, in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, the International Institute for the Environment and Development and other collaborators.
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  Hands not land: how livelihoods are changing in rural Bangladesh

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2002

  This book provides some ideas for development practitioners on how to approach the challenge of the eradication of poverty in Bangladesh. Its origins lie in a study of rural livelihoods commissioned in 2000-2001 by DFID UKThis book is an overview of research papers that examine the life and livelihoods of people living in rural Bangladesh.

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