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    Defining a framework of approach and formulating recommendations in order to take into greater account the link between return migration and development

    European University Institute, Italy, 2008
    A successful migratory experience abroad increases a migrant’s chances of reintegration in their country of origin. This short document outlines a framework approach and formulates recommendations in order to take into greater account the link between return migration and development.
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    Demographics and climate change: future trends and their policy implications for migration

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2008
    This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for international development and evidence gaps that could be plugged with appropriate new research.
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    Engaging diasporas as development partners for home and destination countries: challenges for policymakers

    International Organization for Migration, 2008
    The role of diasporas in development strategies, poverty reduction and economic growth is attracting considerable policy interest, involving diasporas, host countries and home countries. This paper reviews existing policies aimed at engaging diasporas for development purposes, and discusses the policy context and factors that facilitate their mobilization.
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    Domestic migrant remittances in China: distribution, channels and livelihoods

    International Organization for Migration, 2006
    Remittances are an integral feature of the migration system in China. Remittances occur largely because migration forms part of a strategy for ‘rural livelihood diversification’. This means that rural households spread their earning activities over a range of on-farm and off-farm activities in order to minimise their risks and raise their returns to available labour.
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    State of world population 2007: unleashing the potential of urban growth

    United Nations Population Fund, 2008
    In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half the world's population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. By 2030, this is expected to swell to almost 5 billion. Many of the new urbanites will be poor. Their future, the future of cities in developing countries, the future of humanity itself, all depend very much on decisions made now in preparation for this growth.
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    Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs: a new development strategy and aid policy

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2008
    Rapid urbanisation is a fact of life even in the least developed countries where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. This paper examines the causes, consequences and policy implications of the ongoing urbanisation in the African less developed countries (LDCs).
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    Azerbaijan: IDPs still trapped in poverty and dependence

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2008
    Almost 15 years after signing a ceasefire agreement, Azerbaijan and Armenia have yet to resolve the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. In the absence of a peace agreement, some 570,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) are still prevented from returning to their homes in Azerbaijan.
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    Assessing rights as citizens: the camp based Urdu speaking community in Bangladesh

    Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007
    In the Bengali- speaking nation of Bangladesh today are a small number of Urdu speakers. Many have been there for generations having migrated from the State of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal in Indian colonial times. This short policy brief identifies some of the present barriers to effective citizenship. The authors examine the community’s hopes, fears and aspirations.
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    Coping with riverbank erosion induced displacement

    Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007
    Each year, tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh are internally displaced as a consequence of riverbank erosion. Yet, such erosion does not draw the attention of policy makers in the same way that other natural disasters do and as a result, a number of coping mechanisms are employed by those affected, with the burden of displacement largely falling on women.
  • Organisation

    Global Union Research Network (GURN)

    The GURN is a cooperation project of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) , the Global Union Federations (GUFs), the ILO's Internat

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