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  Migration, poverty and development in Nepal

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2004

  High unemployment rates compel Nepalese people to migrate within and outside the country in search of better opportunities of livelihood.
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  Internal migration in Nepal

  Central Department of Population Studies, Nepal, 2003

  Migration is a component of population change that can change the size, growth and other characteristics of the population both in sending and receiving areas. This paper discusses internal migration of native born population in Nepal, primarily based on the data collected during the 2001 census.
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  We shall travel on: quality of care, economic development, and the international migration of long-term care workers

  American Association of Retired Persons International Section, 2005

  This report examines demographic, social, and political factors driving the increased international migration of workers to provide long-term care services in developed countries.
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  Global governance for migration and the environment: what can we learn from each other?

  Global Commission on International Migration, 2005

  This paper reflects on major governance-related developments in both global environmental governance (GEG) and global migration governance (GMG). It extracts the lessons practitioners can learn from the strengths and weaknesses of both fields.GMG is uncalculated in its organization, with major outstanding governance issues.
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  Early departures: the emigration potential of Zimbabwean students

  Southern African Migration Project, 2005

  This study examines the causes for Zimbabwe’s brain drain. It presents the results of a survey of final-year college and university students in Zimbabwe.
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  Cutting edge pack: gender and migration

  BRIDGE, 2005

  How does migration advance or impede gender equality? How can policy-makers and practitioners promote gender equality in work on migration? This report seeks to answer these questions by looking at both internal and international migration, regular and irregular migration, as well as across the spectrum from forced, such as trafficking, to voluntary migration.
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  The migration of physicians from sub-Saharan Africa to the United States of America: measures of the African brain drain

  Human Resources for Health, 2004

  This Human Resources for Health paper details the characteristics and trends in migration to the United States (US) of physicians trained in sub-Saharan Africa. Findings reveal that more than 23 per cent of US physicians were trained outside of the US, with a majority trained in low-income or lower middle-income countries.
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  Global aging and fiscal policy with international labor mobility: a political economy perspective

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. It looks at links between migration, aging, the economy and politics in sending countries.
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  Migration and development: options for managing mutual impacts

  Global Development Network, 2005

  This paper examines the impact of migration on development in developing countries experiencing significant outflows of migrants.
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  Exploring the linkages between children’s independent migration and education: evidence from Ghana

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2005

  This paper explores the linkages between children’s independent migration and education, both formal and non-formal, who have moved from rural, farming households in northern Ghana to rural and urban households in central and southern Ghana.

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