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    The challenges of a changing population in Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Following current trends, Asia’s population will grow by 757 million people to reach 4.3 billion by 2025. This growing population will be unevenly distributed across Asia’s three regions: South-Asia, South-East Asia and East Asia. This has implications for the environment, education, the role of women and social security.
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    Paying for health care migration: the case for compensation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Thousands of health care professionals leave sub-Saharan Africa each year to work in the UK. This flow of skilled workers creates a subsidy to the UK health services that leaves African health services understaffed and unable to deliver effective health care. Should the UK be obliged to pay compensation for the healthcare professionals that it takes from Africa?
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    Making the connections between diasporas and development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Policymakers now recognise that migration can stimulate development in countries of origin. European development agencies have sought to ‘mobilise’ diaspora organisations. They need, however, to realise that migrants are natural development agents and should be helped rather than told how to achieve development.
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    Ageing population requires pension reform in Viet Nam

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Viet Nam is currently a ‘young’ economy, with just nine percent of the population over the age of 60 years and a median age of 25 years. But life expectancy is increasing and fertility rates are decreasing. The elderly will make up more than a quarter of the population by 2050.
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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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    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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    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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    State of the world's cities 2006/7

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2006
    It is generally assumed that people living in the urban areas of developing countries are healthier, more literate and better off than their rural counterparts.
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    id21 viewpoint - Making migration work

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    December 2005 saw the UK launch Kofi Annan’s Global Commission on International Migration which aims to provide a ‘framework for the formulation of a coherent, comprehensive and global response to the issue of international migration’.
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    Migrant women from West Bengal: livelihoods, vulnerability, ill-being and well being: some perspectives from the field

    Eldis Document Store, 2004
    This paper examines the issues faced by migrant women from West Bengal to Delhi, as understood through interactive discussion sessions with such groups. Specifically, the authors met with elderly migrant women who had migrated from West Bengal to Delhi without their families.

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