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    Till to tiller: linkages between international remittances and access to land in West Africa

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004
    This paper, prepared for FAO’s Land Tenure Service and Sub-programme, explores the role remittances have on people’s access to land and natural resources.
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    Efforts underway to stem "brain drain" of doctors and nurses

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005
    This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) outlines actions that are being taken to combat the problem of developing countries losing healthcare professionals through migration to wealthier countries.
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    China’s overseas professionals facilitate knowledge exchange

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Since the end of the 1970s, nearly 300,000 professionals have migrated permanently from the People’s Republic of China. Many were students sent overseas by the Chinese government to international universities who then never returned. However, these migrants have helped their country through the knowledge exchanged between China and rest of the world.
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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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    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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    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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