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Migration and inequality
World Bank, 2005This paper focuses on case studies across Central America, Eastern Europe, West Africa and South Asia and demonstrates how the mutual causality between migration and inequality varies both between and within regions.DocumentHow population structure shapes childhood poverty
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005The relationship between demography (population structure) and economic development has been extensively studied, but its effects on childhood poverty are poorly understood. How do demographic variables such as fertility and age structure relate to family and therefore childhood wellbeing?DocumentToward a conflict sensitive poverty reduction strategy: lessons from a retrospective analysis
World Bank, 2005This report aims to determine how causes and consequences of violent conflict can best be addressed within a country’s poverty reduction program. It is based on a a retrospective analysis of the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) experience in nine conflict affected countries namely, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BIH), Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Georgia, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka.DocumentSocial pensions for the developing world
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005By 2050 nearly one in four people in Asia and Latin America and more than one in ten in sub-Saharan Africa will be aged over 60. For older people, pensions are a key element of social protection. Modest pensions are a human right and also make economic sense if the Millennium Development Goals are to be achieved.DocumentA statement of Afar development conference
Development Fund, Norway, 2004Afar Pastoralist Development Association (APDA) organized an Afar National development Conference between 15th and 30th December 2004 in Aysaïta in Afar Regional State of Ethiopia.DocumentInternal migration to the Gauteng Province, South Africa
Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2005This study aims to quantify and describe migration to and migrant labour in Gauteng Province, South Africa, with a view to gaining some insight into special challenges that in-migrant households may present.DocumentMigration and pro-poor policy in East Africa
Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004This paper reports on the findings of a survey conducted on migration and pro-poor policy in East Africa. It identifies the importance of migration to the poor, discusses migration policies, key issues and policy gaps in each country, as well as the region as a whole.DocumentMigration and pro-poor policy in West Africa
Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004This paper reports on the findings of a survey conducted on migration and pro-poor policy in West Africa. The paper identifies the importance of migration to the poor, discusses migration policies, key issues and policy gaps in each country, as well as the region as a whole.DocumentMigration and pro-poor policy in Africa
Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004This paper reports on the findings of a survey on migration and pro-poor policy in Africa.DocumentDrivers of escape and descent: changing household fortunes in rural Bangladesh
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2004This paper gives an analysis of contrasting dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh. In using a livelihoods framework, the author contrasts the fortunes of households that ascend out of poverty, with those who have fallen into poverty.Pages