World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Migration
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Sustaining people on the move
Ubiquitous economic actions are often not studied enough. One such instance is the everyday process of people moving across international boundaries
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Migration, remote rural areas and chronic poverty in India
This paper explores the relationship between migration, remoteness and chronic poverty in India. It addresses one of the key challenges for India, where growing levels of inequality and uneven growth have resulted in large sections of the population being excluded or adversely incorporated. Many of these people belong to remote rural areas and are chronically poor.
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Understanding urban inequalities in Bangladesh: a prerequisite for achieving Vision 2021
This study, based on the results of the 2009 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, challenges the widely held belief that the situation of urban dwellers in Bangladesh is generally better than those living in rural areas. Historically, most development programmes in Bangladesh have focused on rural areas.
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Gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: differentiated pathways out of poverty
Gender equality is an essential component of sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction. Equitable access to more and better jobs in rural areas enable rural women to become effective economic actors and engines of growth; as well as to produce or aquire the food, water, fuel and social services their families need.
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World migration report 2010
Migration is a constant and dynamic phenomenon increasingly requiring diversified policy intervention in order to maximize its potential benefits and minimize related costs for both countries of origin and destination as well as migrants themselves.
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Declining number of slums: Nature of urban growth
The population living in urban slums grew more slowly than the overall urban population between 1991 and 2001, suggesting an exclusionary nature of urban growth. This was also revealed in the form of massive slum evictions and a low incidence of rural-urban and urban-urban migration among classes with low monthly per capita consumption expenditure.
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Migration of tribal women: its socioeconomic effects - an in-depth study of Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand, M.P and Orissa
<p>The main objectives of the this study in the four selected states are: To assess the social and economic situation of the tribal women; To study specific factors responsible for migration of tribal women from the tribal areas to various towns and cities in search of employment; To study the type of economic opportunities the migrant women are engaged in the areas where they migrate; To invest
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The food price crisis and urban food (in)security
<p>Both national and international policy responses to the rapid food price increases in 2007 and the first half of 2008 did little to address the very serious impacts on low-income urban dwellers.
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Exploring mobility and migration in the context of rural–urban linkages: why gender and generation matter
This paper draws on case studies in Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania and Vietnam to explore the different ways in which migration intersects with the changing relations between rural and urban areas and activities,
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The basic doctor for rural India: A failed promise?
An analysis of the landmark 194646 Bhore Committee report suggests that vested interests may have played a role in shaping India