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    The brain drain: what do we know?

    Agence française de développement, 2006
    How are countries affected when their skilled and talented workers emigrate?
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    Can migrant remittances help rebuild conflict-affected states?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    An important component of peace-building is maintenance of livelihoods during conflict and to ensure sustainable post-conflict recovery. The role of private individual support to war-torn communities is little researched and poorly understood by those who plan peace-building programmes and post-conflict assistance strategies.
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    Voices of child migrants: a better understanding of how life is

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
    There is a significant gap between how children see their own experiences of migration and the way that child migrants are often represented. This report presents accounts from 16 children from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India and Ghana who were interviewed in the course of the Migration DRC research so as to highlight what children themselves think and say about their lives.
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    Toolkit to combat trafficking in persons

    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2006
    With the tide of human trafficking rising rather than falling, the need for effective prevention policies is unquestionable. This toolkit presents a selection of conceptual, legislative and organisational tools used to fight the problem in different parts of the world.
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    Special evaluation study on involuntary resettlement safeguards

    Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2006
    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is facing a dilemma. The involuntary resettlement (IR) bar has been continuously raised, yet staff numbers committed to it have not increased sufficiently. This review examines the extent of the bank's application of its IR policy. It reviews trends, the policy's relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability.
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    What brings rural migrants to coastal areas of China?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    It is a popular notion that China has an unlimited labour supply. However, coastal cities of China suffer from labour shortages because rural migrants go elsewhere. The opinions of migrant workers have received less attention than those of employers and local government officials. Why do they leave home? What influences their decisions on where to go?
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    Women and international migration in the health sector

    Public Services International, 2004
    This report from Public Services International documents how the global migration of health workers is adversely affecting the quality of health care delivery and the employment conditions of women health workers.
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    Migrant networks and foreign direct investment

    World Bank Publications, 2006
    What are the effects of ethic networks on foreign direct investment (FDI)? This study investigates the link between the presence of migrants in the United States and U.S. FDI in 56 of the migrants' countries of origin.
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    Close to home: development impact of remittances in Latin America

    World Bank, 2006
    The report focuses on the impact of remittances on poverty reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report analyses the characteristics of households that are remittance recipients and how these characteristics affect the poverty-reducing impact of observed remittances flows.
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    Elder parent health and the migration decision of adult children: evidence from rural China

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2006
    As the population of potential care-givers to the elderly shrinks with the appearance of attractive migrant employment opportunities, many observers have expressed concerns for the well-being of the Chinese rural elderly. This paper examines the impact of elder parent health on the migration decision of adult children.

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