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  The quality of migration services delivery in South Africa

  Southern African Migration Project, 2005

  In response to critiques against the The South African Department of Home Affairs (DHA) for administrative inefficiency, poor service delivery and corruption, the Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) proposed the Service Quality Survey (SQS project).
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  Local public goods insecurity, conflict and remittances: there is a decentralised "Balm in Gilead" for poor, troubled, societies!

  Global Development Network, 2005

  Given the fact that local public goods (such as schools, health centers, irrigation systems, police outposts, etc.) are not less vital to human security than are private goods (such as food and clothing), the under provision of local public goods constitutes a source of human insecurity that may erupt into conflicts.
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  Internal migration and development: a global perspective

  International Organization for Migration, 2005

  This paper discusses the trends, causes and impacts associated with internal voluntary migration for paid work.
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  Migration and pro-poor policy in Africa

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004

  This paper reports on the findings of a survey on migration and pro-poor policy in Africa.
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  Whose needs are right? Refugees, oustees and the challenges of rights-based approaches in forced migration

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

  This paper challenges the conventional framework relating to refugees and oustees, by exploring the application of rights-based approaches to forced migration.
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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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  Migrant workers and xenophobia in the Middle East

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2003

  This paper analyses trends in migration to oil rich and other labour receiving countries in the Middle East, as well as discussing causes, patterns and cases of labour-related xenophobia throughout the region.Highlights of the paper include:the major influx of foreign workers into the Middle East began following the oil price boom in 1973, which resulted in an enormous surge of wealth f
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  Human development report 2004: cultural liberty in today's diverse world

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004

  The UNDP Human Development Report 2004 focuses on policy approaches to multicultural nations and communities.
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  Poverty, international migration and asylum

  United Nations University, 2004

  This paper discusses the issues surrounding poverty, international migration and asylum.
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  Copenhagen Consensus: challenge paper on population and migration

  Copenhagen Consensus, 2004

  Many countries receiving migrants are attempting to manage immigration by discouraging potential migrants through tighter controls and restrictions of benefits. This paper argues that this is not an optimal solution. Rather, the overall goal is to create a world in which migration is unnecessary because sufficient opportunity exists at home.

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