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    The education motive for migrant remittances: theory and evidence from India

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2017
    This paper analyses the impact of anticipated old age support, provided by children to parents, on intra-family transfers and education. The authors highlight an education motive for remittances, according to which migrants have an incentive to invest in their siblings’ education via transfers to parents, in order to better share the burden of old age support.
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    Pushed aside: displaced for "development" in India

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2016
    By providing a first-hand account of development projects and business activities that have caused displacement across India, this report documents and analyses the scale, process and impacts of this phenomenon.
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    Reflections on innovation, assessment, and social change: a SPARC case study

    Development in Practice, 2009
    This article challenges the terms on which donor agencies evaluate development success, drawing on a particular case to make its point.
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    Lessons from rising living standards in rural India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The last thirty years have seen rapid economic and social change in India. Faster economic growth has been accompanied by reports of substantial reductions in poverty. But concerns remain that some regions and groups of people living in poverty have been left out.
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    Marginalised migrant workers and social protection

    Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007
    This paper reports on a two-day workshop on marginalised migrant workers and social protection issues held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in October 2006. The workshop was organised by the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit in Bangladesh and its partner, the Development Research Centre (DRC) on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, based at the University of Sussex, Brighton.
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    The challenges of a changing population in Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Following current trends, Asia’s population will grow by 757 million people to reach 4.3 billion by 2025. This growing population will be unevenly distributed across Asia’s three regions: South-Asia, South-East Asia and East Asia. This has implications for the environment, education, the role of women and social security.
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    Voices of child migrants: a better understanding of how life is

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
    There is a significant gap between how children see their own experiences of migration and the way that child migrants are often represented. This report presents accounts from 16 children from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India and Ghana who were interviewed in the course of the Migration DRC research so as to highlight what children themselves think and say about their lives.
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    Migrant women from West Bengal: livelihoods, vulnerability, ill-being and well being: some perspectives from the field

    Eldis Document Store, 2004
    This paper examines the issues faced by migrant women from West Bengal to Delhi, as understood through interactive discussion sessions with such groups. Specifically, the authors met with elderly migrant women who had migrated from West Bengal to Delhi without their families.
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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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