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  Urban poverty and development in the 21st century: towards an inclusive and sustainable world

  Oxfam, 2006

  As of 2007, more people will live in cities than in rural areas, a proportion that is set to increase in years to come. In light of this, this paper argues that urban planning and urban development policies are crucial to the creation of an environmentally stable global society and discusses what can be done to promote more inclusive and sustainable cities.
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  Circular migration and development: trends, policy routes, and ways forward

  Migration Policy Institute, 2007

  Circular migration, the temporary or permanent return of migrants to their countries of origin, is high on the agenda of many policymakers in migrant-receiving countries, particularly in the West. This paper examines what circular migration is and what types of it exist. It looks at the extent of circular migration and at circulation among temporary migrants.
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  Migration, school attainment and child labor: evidence from rural Pakistan

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  Does temporary economic migration increase investment in education by the poor, reduce child labour and improve girls’ access to education?
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  New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007

  This report from the World Bank provides new evidence on the extent to which absolute poverty has urbanized in the developing world, and the role that population urbanization has played in overall poverty reduction.It finds that: one quarter of the world 's consumption poor live in urban areas, a proportion that has been rising over timeby fostering economic growth, urbanization hel
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  Views on migration in sub-Saharan Africa: proceedings of an African Migration Alliance Workshop

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2006

  This collation of articles all respond to the question: what are Africa’s policy concerns on migration?Africa is seeing an increasing number of its citizens migrate from its rural sector to its cities and to new overseas destinations.
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  Migration, urbanisation and sustainable livelihoods in South Africa

  Southern African Migration Project, 2005

  This document explores the challenges that discrimination based on nationality or country of origin poses for the sustainable development of South African cities. Migration and urbanisation have created tensions among residents of South African cities.
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  Local understandings of, and responses to, HIV: rural-urban migrants in Tanzania

  London School of Economics (=British Library for Political and Economic Science (BLPES)), 2006

  The focus of this study is male rural-urban migration in Tanzania and its interaction with sexual behaviour. The analysis presents results from a comparison with individual-level analyses from two populations, one in an urban area and one in a rural area.
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  Moving away from poverty: a spatial analysis of poverty and migration in Albania

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This paper analyses recent patterns of migration and poverty in Albania, a country that - following the collapse of the communist regime in 1990 – has been experiencing high migration rates.Using a combination of survey and census data, the paper characterises spatial patterns in the distribution of poverty and migration at a high level of geographic disaggregation.The results emphasise the
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  Internal migration, poverty and development in Asia including the excluded through partnerships and improved governance

  Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006

  This paper explores the relationship between internal migration and economic growth and development in Asia, concentrating on four countries – China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia – and looks at ways in which greatest benefit could be derived from internal migration. Although internal migration is by no means a new phenomenon, it has increased rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s and is continuing
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  Children on the move: rural-urban migration and access to education in Mongolia

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2006

  This study examined the impact of rural-urban migration on children's access to education in Mongolia.

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