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    Urbanization and rural development in Vietnam's Mekong Delta: livelihood transformations in three fruit-growing settlements

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This article discusses the reasons and implications of the decline in poverty rate among fruit farmers in the rural Mekong Delta, as compared to all other rural households in the region and in Vietnam. This decline happened despite huge fluctuations in export markets for fruit in the last decade.
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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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    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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    Africa review report on drought and desertification

    UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2008
    Prepared by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in preparation for the sixteenth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16), this report reviews drought and desertification in Africa by bringing together inputs from member states, regional partners, available documentation and comment from various organisations and individuals.
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    Lessons from rising living standards in rural India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The last thirty years have seen rapid economic and social change in India. Faster economic growth has been accompanied by reports of substantial reductions in poverty. But concerns remain that some regions and groups of people living in poverty have been left out.
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    Migrating out of poverty: the case of Moldova, Tajikistan, Kosovo and Georgia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Migration can help reduce poverty in both origin and destination countries but governments need to make sure the right political and economic environment is in place. Migration should be seen as an opportunity to develop poorer regions rather than a threat, particularly in the case of the so-called transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe.
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    A climate of conflict

    SIDA Studies, 2008
    Climate change is upon us and its physical effects have started to unfold. This report takes such findings, expressed in the Forth Assessment Review of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, as its starting point and looks at the social and human consequences that are likely to ensue – particularly the risks of conflict and instability.
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    Remittances, migration and social development: a conceptual review of the literature

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2007
    This paper reviews the empirical literature on the relationship between remittances and various dimensions of social development in the developing world within a broader conceptual framework of migration and development theory. Empirical and theoretical research highlights the heterogeneous nature of migration-remittance-development interactions.
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    Displacement of Zimbabweans into Malawi: the implications for poverty eradication efforts. A research report.

    Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation, 2007
    This research report highlights some key issues regarding the crisis-based displacement of Zimbabweans to Malawi. It illustrates the impact upon, and perceptions of, displaced Zimbabweans and the Malawian communities which host them. From this and the legislative research, there are a number of recommendations which include: The Government of Malawi:

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