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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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    Demographic change and regional competitiveness: the effects of immigration and ageing

    Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato, 2007
    This paper focuses on the impact of population ageing and immigration on regional competitiveness, including innovation, entrepreneurship and productivity. The author presents empirical evidence that population ageing reduces regional competitiveness, while immigration – particularly of entrepreneurs and highly skilled workers to metropolitan areas – enhances competitiveness.
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    Pathways to success for the second generation in Europe

    Migration Information Source, 2007
    How can the children of immigrants be better integrated into European life and culture? This article looks at pathways to success for the children of immigrants (often called the second generation) in Europe.
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    India: Orissa, Kashipur: Utkal bauxite & alumina project: human rights and environmental impacts

    Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2007
    This report reviews environmental and social aspects of plans by Utkal Alumina Industries Ltd to mine bauxite and refine alumina. The project is a joint venture between Canada’s Alcan and Hindalco.
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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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    Place, social protection and migration in Bangladesh: a Londoni village in Biswanath

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
    What is the relationship between migration, poverty and social protection in Bangladesh? This paper, which is based on recent research in Biswanath, Sylhet (in Bangladesh) examines generalised notions of ‘social protection’ common to development discourse. The context is a ‘Londoni’ village (i.e. a village with high levels of transnational migration to the UK).
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    Multiple origins, uncertain destinies: Hispanics and the American future

    Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences, 2006
    Hispanics are one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population and are currently the nation's largest ethnic minority, and they will remain so for the foreseeable future.
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    Immigrants and boomers: forging a new social contract for the future of America

    Russell Sage Foundation, 2007
    The state of California leads all other states in America with its 27 percent foreign-born share in the population, and it therefore represents the leading edge of demographic changes in America as a whole.
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    Migrants' remittances and development: myths, rhetoric and realities

    International Organization for Migration, 2006
    Migrant remittances have become a focus of heightened attention in recent years. This paper discusses the level of remittances, both formal and informal, and their geographical distribution. It also discerns types and personal characteristics of migrants as remitters.
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    Development financing and the remittance market in Serbia and Switzerland

    State Secretariat for Economic Cooperation and Development, Switzerland, 2007
    As an important origin of remittances, Switzerland is very interested in concepts and projects which facilitate and render more secure transfers of remittances.

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