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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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  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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  Migration, development and poverty reduction in Asia

  International Organization for Migration, 2005

  This document is a report from the The Regional Conference on Migration and Development in Asia, held in Lanzhou, China from 14-16 March 2005.The report focuses on the migration and development experiences of a selected number of Asian countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Pakistan and Viet Nam.
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  Sending money home: a survey of remittance products and services in the United Kingdom

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report provides comparable and accessible information on the products and services available to people wanting to send money home from the UK to developing countries. The report aims to increase transparency on costs, speed of money transfer, and the coverage and customer service that banks, building societies and money transfer operators offer in the UK.
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  Beyond remittances: the role of diaspora in poverty reduction in their countries of origin

  Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2004

  This paper analyses the impact of established Diaspora on the reduction of poverty, and identifies ways in which policy interventions, especially from donors of official development assistance, might strengthen that impact.This paper specifically: examines the role of Diaspora in poverty reduction through four main areas of focus: policy and practice towards Diaspora on the part
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  China migration country study

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper provides an overview of the causes, impacts and implications of both internal migration within China and international migration from China, drawing on interviews with key researchers and policy advisors; a review of recent literature; and analysis of published and unpublished research data.Its main findings include that: in the late 1990s, China's cities had attracted close
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  Labour migration in Asia: trends, challenges and policy responses in countries of origin

  International Organization for Migration, 2003

  This book explores the new patterns and trends that are emerging in labour migration in Asia, which are affected by not just the labour market, but also national and social circumstances.