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  An overview of migration in India, its impacts and key issues

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper reviews both internal migration in India and emigration of Indians to other countries, drawing on secondary sources to profile migrant workers, and to identify the causes and impacts of migration. Its findings include:
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  Migration in Vietnam: a review of information on current trends and patterns, and their policy implications

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  Internal and international migration has significantly increased in Vietnam since the economic reforms of 1986.
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  How does poverty affect migration choice?: a review of literature

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2003

  This paper takes a sustainable livelihoods approach to understanding the relationship between migration and poverty, and it explores the effects of poverty on people’s decision and ability to migrate.A livelihood approach to poverty and migration emphasises that: whilst migration does occur in response to crisis for some, it is also a central livelihood strategy for many people in the face of p
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  Seasonal migration for livelihoods in India: coping, accumulation and exclusion

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  Seasonal and circular migration of labour for employment has become one of the most durable components of the livelihood strategies of people living in rural areas on India .This paper looks at why some groups within India have succeeded in entering accumulative migration pathways while others have been excluded. The author adopts a social exclusion and livelihoods approach in analysing the liv
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  Palestinian livelihoods in Egypt

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Palestinians, numbering over eight million around the world, are known among other diaspora communities for their ability to sustain their livelihoods. Palestinians in Egypt are currently employed in a wide range of professions, among them wealthy businesspeople, entrepreneurs, and skilled and unskilled labourers. What are the conditions under which they have survived?
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  Changing rural-urban interactions in Sub-Saharan Africa and their impact on livelihoods: a summary

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2002

  This paper argues that trends in flows of people, goods, money and information, and patterns of occupational diversification reflect a dynamic process of economic, social and cultural transformation in Sub Saharan Africa which needs to be better understood.
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  Sustainable rural livelihoods: practical concepts for the 21st century

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1991

  Working on the premise that in the 21st century there may be two or three times the human population than at the time of writing, this paper explores the concept of sustainable livelihoods.
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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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  Migrants, livelihoods and rights: the relevance of migration in development policies

  Department for International Development, UK, 2000

  Aims to inform development policy debates with an improved understanding of migration. The paper starts from the idea that these debates pay too little attention to the contribution of migration to poverty reduction: policies tend to ignore migration, or have the implicit or explicit aim to reduce migration.

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