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  Gender, Age and Migration: An extended briefing

  BRIDGE, 2016

  In many parts of the world, migration has replaced fertility and mortality as the leading agent of demographic change. A person’s gender, age, religion, race, ethnicity, sexuality and health or disability shape every stage of the migration experience.
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  Remittances to transit countries: the impact on Sudanese refugee livelihoods in Cairo

  The American University in Cairo, 2012

  Transit countries are way stations or stopping points in the journey of migrants and refugees from their countries of origin to their intended destination countries. Many migrants and refugees become ‘stuck’, often for years, unable to either move onward or to return to their home countries.
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  Livelihoods, migration and conflict: discussion of findings from two studies in W. and N. Darfur

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 2009

  In conflict zones where displacement and insecurity undermine people’s ability to pursue livelihoods, links with Diaspora and the remittances they send are an important source of support. This briefing paper discusses findings from a study conducted in Darfur and explores the changing role of migration and remittances in people’s livelihoods.
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  Leveraging remittances for development

  Migration Policy Institute, 2007

  Migrant remittances are the most tangible and perhaps the least controversial link between migration and development. This paper finds that remittances provide a convenient angle for approaching the complex migration agenda. They play an effective role in reducing poverty.
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  The phenomenal rise in remittances to India: a closer look

  Migration Policy Institute, 2007

  This paper explores the relative importance of remittances in India’s economy and identifies factors responsible for this exponential gain, focusing on the effects of government and commercial bank policies, the profile of recent emigrants, and the strength of the Indian economy. The paper finds that factors responsible for the growth in reported remittances include:
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  Remittances in crises: a Haiti case study

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006

  This study examines the role of remittances to Haiti’s third largest city, Gonaives, after it was destroyed by the September 2004 tropical storm Jean. The author finds that:migrant remittances make up a ‘chain of solidarity’, from neighbours, relatives living in other parts of the country, international humanitarian agencies, and overseas relatives.
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  Remittances as development finance

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005

  This brief paper discusses the literature on remittances in three areas: the developmental impact of remittances; policies to enhance the developmental impact of remittances; and remittances and migration policy.It highlights that the literature might over-emphasise the extent to which remittances are used for investment, but that remittances may initially concentrate on consumption and then be
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  Remittances: the new development mantra?

  Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2003

  This paper examines remittance flows to developing countries.