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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Changes in land relations: The political economy of land reforms in a Kerala village
The mainstream development literature tries to understand the changes in land relations through the lens of land reforms alone. Kerala provides an appropriate setting to understand how far radical redistributive land reforms have succeeded in transforming inequity in landownership.
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Tuberculosis on the move
Human migration has had a major effect on the spread of tuberculosis throughout the course of human history. In modern times, geographic barriers have been easily overcome, and mass migration reached unprecedented levels in the latter half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. Nearly 1 billion
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The privileged pack their bags faster
New Delhi: A tad less than 30% of India
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Employment main cause of migration in 2007-08, says NSSO report
The majority of households in urban as well as rural areas migrate because of employment opportunities, according to a new government survey. Nearly 55 per cent of households in rural areas and 67 per cent in urban areas migrated for employment-related reasons in 2007-08, says the National Sample Survey Office report (64th round) released today.
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Dharavi: Makeover or takeover?
Dharavi in Mumbai exemplifies what is most ugly and what is most inspiring about slum life in a city. How should it be redeveloped to remove the ugliness and yet retain its community spirit, enterprise, ambitions and hope?
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Migration in India 2007-2008
An all-India survey on the situation of employment and unemployment and migration particulars in India was carried out during NSS 64th round (July, 2007 to June, 2008). The
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World economic and social survey 2010: retooling global development
<p>The UN Department for Social and Economic Affairs (UNDESA) has released the World Economic and Social Survey (WEES) 2010, which indicates that many of the global crises in recent years – such as the food, fuel and financial crises – are to a large extent due to major systemic failures in the global economy and weaknesses in the mechanisms for global governance.
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Heatwave forces cattle exodus from Rajasthan
Jaisalmer: Continuing heatwave across swathes of Rajasthan has forced hundreds of cattle-rearers from Jaisalmer and Barmer to migrate to neighbouring states in search of meadows for their livestock. Mercury in the areas bordering Pakistan has shot up to 50 degree C and left scores of people dead.
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Flood and erosion induced population displacements: A socio-economic case study in the Gangetic riverine tract at Malda district
Various multipurpose dams around the globe have compelled the people to displace. The figure of dams and displaced people is too high, but displacements for flood and erosion are much higher than the dams. A study of Gangetic Tract at Malda District of West Bengal, India alone again proved the above hypothesis.