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    Vox

    VoxEU.org is a policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (www.CEPR.org) in conjunction with a consortium of national sites, including the Italian site LaVoce (which provided i
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    The Americas social security report 2007

    Conferencia Interamericana de Seguridad Social / Inter-American Conference on Social Security, Mexico, 2006
    Processes associated with globalisation have lead to a range of new challenges relating to social protection throughout the Americas.
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    Varied pension schemes reach most poor households in Brazil

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Some researchers claim that non-contributory state pensions can reduce household poverty, increase family solidarity, improve access to health services and enhance school enrolment rates for girls. But they are also expensive – absorbing around eight percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Brazil.
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    Marginalised migrant workers and social protection

    Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007
    This paper reports on a two-day workshop on marginalised migrant workers and social protection issues held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in October 2006. The workshop was organised by the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit in Bangladesh and its partner, the Development Research Centre (DRC) on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, based at the University of Sussex, Brighton.
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    Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

    ActionAid International, 2007
    Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.
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    Social protection and internal migration in Bangladesh: supporting the poorest

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2007
    How does migration exacerbate the difficulties that many people already face in accessing formal social protection, such as additional income or food? And how can migration itself facilitate access to an informal form of social protection for poorer households, even if this is risky and does not always lead to positive outcomes?
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    Moving out of poverty - making migration work better for poor people

    Department for International Development, UK, 2007
    Migration remains a controversial issue. People talk about the impact of irregular migration, the loss of much-needed skills, social tensions and the rights of newcomers. This paper, published by the Department for International Development (DFID) aims to contribute to this debate and illustrates how well-managed migration can be a positive force for development.
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    Migration, remittances and development in Southern Africa

    Southern African Migration Project, 2006
    What are the development impacts of remittances by migrants in Southern Africa? This extensive paper, based on the migration and remittances survey (MARS), provides nationally-representative data on remittance flows and usage at the household level for Botswana, Lesotho, Southern Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
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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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    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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