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  Remittances and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The government of Zimbabwe’s policy on international migrants has recently focused on the potential developmental effects of the remittances. It has established the ‘Home Link’ scheme which aims to channel these. However, low trust from the migrants and low official exchange rates are major obstacles to this.
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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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  A guide for non governmental organisations on the implementation of the Migrant Workers convention

  Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, South Africa, 2005

  This document is a how-to guide on implementing the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrants Workers and Members of Their Families. The manual is aimed at NGOs, coalition members and individual organisations.
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  People flows in globalization

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006

  This paper argues that the movement of people from low income to high income countries is fundamental in global economic development, with consequences for factor endowments, trade patterns, and transfers of technology.In part because people flows are smaller than trade and capital flows, the dispersion of pay for similarly skilled workers around the world exceeds the dispersion of the prices o
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  Engaging diasporas: how governments and development agencies can support diaspora involvement in the development of origin countries

  Oxfam, 2006

  The study analyses how multilateral organisations and European governments and development agencies have implemented "migrants and development" policies over the past three decades.
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  Empowering women migrant workers

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005

  This document presents information on UNIFEM’s Regional Programme on Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia which seeks to empower women migrant workers from a gender and rights-based development perspective.
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  Do workers’ remittances promote financial development?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  Workers’ remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct investment.
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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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  2005 Global Refugee Trends: statistical overview of populations of refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons, stateless persons

  United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 2006

  This UNHCR report highlights the state of the world's refugees,asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons, and stateless persons.Highlights from the report include:inclusion of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the statistics points to a rise in global displacement to 21million people32 percent of the agencies work is with IDPs, 40 percent is with those with refugee status, a
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  Remittances, poverty reduction and the informalisation of household wellbeing in Zimbabwe

  ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2006

  The term "Brain Drain" seems to be the latest development catch phrase. Cited in journalism and academia alike, its meaning is somewhat ambiguous.

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