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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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  Human rights and world trade agreements: using general exception clauses to protect human rights

  UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2005

  This paper examines ways of reconciling trade and human rights law through the use of general exception clauses in WTO trade agreements.
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  World Population Policies 2005

  United Nations Population Division, 2006

  This publication shows, on a country-by-country basis, the evolution of Government views and policies from 1976 to 2005 with respect to population size and growth, population age structure, fertility and family planning, health and mortality, spatial distribution and international migration.For developing countries, the large size of the working age population, high adolescent fertility, low li
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  Internal migration, poverty and development in Asia including the excluded through partnerships and improved governance

  Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006

  This paper explores the relationship between internal migration and economic growth and development in Asia, concentrating on four countries – China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia – and looks at ways in which greatest benefit could be derived from internal migration. Although internal migration is by no means a new phenomenon, it has increased rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s and is continuing
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  Long-term immigration projection methods: current practice and how to improve it

  Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2006

  Assumptions about international migration are an increasingly important component of demographic projections.
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  The macroeconomics of remittances: the case of Tajikistan

  International Monetary Fund, 2006

  Labour migration and associated remittances have been a largely unexpected result of the transition of Tajikistan to a market economy. Against a background of economic instability and civil distress, migration from Tajikistan and the consequent remittances have been unprecedented in their magnitude and economic impact, with flows of remittances reaching around 50% of GDP.
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  TRIPS agreement and access to drugs in developing countries

  Sur - International Journal on Human Rights, 2005

  This article examines the progress made in the process to lend more flexibility to the TRIPS Agreement for medical drugs, and shows how the Doha Declaration and the 2003 Decision of the TRIPS Board on the implementation of its paragraph 6 are insufficient to ensure a reduction in prices and the negotiation of voluntary licenses.The paper argues that:the implementation of the Decision on
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  Children on the move: rural-urban migration and access to education in Mongolia

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2006

  This study examined the impact of rural-urban migration on children's access to education in Mongolia.
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  Integrating migration and development policies: challenges for ACP-EU cooperation

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2005

  This paper examines the role of migration in economic, social and political development in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP). Following the inclusion of a migration clause (article 13) in the political dimensions chapter of the Cotonou Agreement, migration issues have come onto the EU's development agenda.
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  Sri Lanka's migrant labor remittances: enhancing the quality and outreach of the rural remittance infrastructure

  World Bank Publications, 2005

  With the increasing trend and growth of migrant remittances, the Sri Lankan Central Bank is now debating the following key issues: the developmental impact of remittances; the high transaction costs associated with remittances; and the level of transparency and accountability in the remittance industry, especially the informal remittance sector.

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