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  Skilled migration: the perspective of developing countries

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper examines the consequences of skilled migration for developing countries. The authors first present new evidence on the magnitude of migration of skilled workers at the international level and then discuss its direct and indirect effects on human capital formation in developing countries in a unified stylised model.
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  Helping older people who care for grandchildren orphaned and affected by AIDS

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  An estimated 13 million children under the age of 15 have already lost either one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. A further 40 million children will lose their parents within the next 10 years. As the HIV/AIDS epidemic hits families in Africa and Asia, large numbers of grandparents are assuming responsibility for the care of orphans and vulnerable children.
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  Remittances and poverty in Guatemala

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyse the impact of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) on poverty in Guatemala.
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  How does poverty affect migration choice?: a review of literature

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2003

  This paper takes a sustainable livelihoods approach to understanding the relationship between migration and poverty, and it explores the effects of poverty on people’s decision and ability to migrate.A livelihood approach to poverty and migration emphasises that: whilst migration does occur in response to crisis for some, it is also a central livelihood strategy for many people in the face of p
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  Seasonal labour migration in rural Nepal: a preliminary overview

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper discussesthe development of rapid appraisal mechanisms through an examination of seasonal labour migration in rural Nepal.
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  Seasonal migration for livelihoods in India: coping, accumulation and exclusion

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  Seasonal and circular migration of labour for employment has become one of the most durable components of the livelihood strategies of people living in rural areas on India .This paper looks at why some groups within India have succeeded in entering accumulative migration pathways while others have been excluded. The author adopts a social exclusion and livelihoods approach in analysing the liv
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  Migration and development: how to make migration work for poverty reduction

  UK Parliament, 2004

  This report illustrates how governments and organisations can make migration work for the poor.
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  Environmentally induced migration from Bangladesh to India

  Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India, 2003

  Environmental crisis in the rural areas of developing countries is increasingly becoming an important cause of cross-border migration of population and South Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. Such movement of population in the Indo-Bangladesh context is generating a range of destabilizing socio-political, economic, ethnic and communal tensions in India.
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  Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2002: toward pro-poor policies: aid, institutions and globalization

  Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2004

  This report presents numerous papers from the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, held in June 2002, in Oslo, Norway.The report contains papers on aid, institutions and globalization, providing a general overview of links between poverty, inequality and growth.
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  Understanding old age and poverty in South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  South Africa has one of Africa’s most rapidly ageing populations. Of those aged 50 or over, 25% are chronically poor. Compelled to continue productive and reproductive activities well into old age, the older poor fulfil an important economic role but remain vulnerable and overlooked by policy-makers.

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