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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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    Eldis/BRIDGE Key Issues Guide to Trade and Gender

    Eldis Trade Policy Resource Guide, 2006
    The Key Issue Guide is based on the BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Trade.
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    Advocacy expert series: media guide

    Pact Tanzania, 2006
    Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) need to share information on their different advocacy issues in order to bring about change.
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    Altruism and workers' remittances: evidence from selected countries in the Middle East and Central Asia

    International Monetary Fund, 2006
    Workers’ remittances have been playing an increasingly important role in the balance of payments of many countries and can significantly contribute to the strength of their external positions. Assessing the likely stability of remittance flows could be a valuable input to the analysis of their external vulnerabilities.
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    Migration and development: opportunities and challenges for policymakers

    International Organization for Migration, 2006
    This paper argues that there is growing consensus that international migration can have important impacts on development, and that it is important to develop appropriate and effective policy interventions that will help realise the full potential of international migration.
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    id21 viewpoint - Invisible and neglected: the absence of older people in development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    How can the next generation of development professionals learn about older people? Should UK-based development studies courses address older people more explicitly in their curricula?
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    id21 viewpoint - Brain drains in context

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In order to ‘make poverty history’, it is often felt that Africa needs the skilled people it produces. Developed countries are seen as ‘poaching’ and ‘hoovering up’ skilled people from Africa and other developing regions to meet their own labour demands.
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    Migrant remittances in the context of crisis in Somali society: a case study of Hargeisa

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006
    Observing that migration and remittances have been an important feature of Somali society since the breakout of civil war in 1988 and the collapse of the state in 1991, this paper argues that data on the scale and effects of remittances remains limited.
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    Familiar faces, familiar places: the role of family networks and previous experience for Albanian migrants

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
    Using data from the 2003 Albanian Panel Survey, this paper examines the evolution of Albanian international migration since the fall of Communism in 1990, and analyses the determinants of current flows.Some of the findings include:permanent migration is most likely for people living in Tirana and for younger, higher educated males.
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    Remittances in crises: a Haiti case study

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006
    This study examines the role of remittances to Haiti’s third largest city, Gonaives, after it was destroyed by the September 2004 tropical storm Jean. The author finds that:migrant remittances make up a ‘chain of solidarity’, from neighbours, relatives living in other parts of the country, international humanitarian agencies, and overseas relatives.

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