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Facilitating Safe Labor Migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Issues, Challenges, and Forward-Looking Interventions

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program has adopted a multisector approach to economic corridor development, requiring multisector investments, increased inter-sector coordination, and enhanced knowledge platform. An area of concern is facilitating safe labor migration....

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Enhancing resilience for food security in refugee-hosting communities:

Mabiso, Athur; Maystadt, Jean-François; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

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Refugees, food security, and resilience in host communities: Transitioning from humanitarian assistance to development in protracted refugee situations :

Mabiso, Athur; Maystadt, Jean-François; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

An emerging literature shows how the mass arrival of refugees induces both short- and long-term consequences to hosting … refugees. It provides a conceptual framework for discussing these various channels through which refugee inflows influence food … security in the hosting countries. Second, the literature review finds that the impact of large-scale influxes of refugees on …

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Poverty reduction in a refugee-hosting economy: A natural experiment

Maystadt, Jean-Francois - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

The role of migration in reducing poverty in developing countries has been investigated mainly from the perspective of migrants and their relatives. This paper exploits the time and spatial variations in the way households in the region of Kagera (Tanzania) traced between 1991 and 2004 have been...

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The development push of refugees: Evidence from Tanzania:

Maystadt, Jean-François; Duranton, Gilles - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

Every year, thousands of people flee their country of origin to seek protection mainly in neighboring countries. Understanding better the consequences of temporary population shocks on hosting economies should help to guide policies to enhance resilience in emergency situations. This study...

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Resilience for food and nutrition security

Fan, Shenggen (contributor); Pandya-Lorch, Rajul (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

In recent years, many people and parts of the world have been hit by major shocks ranging from conflicts, erratic weather patterns, earthquakes, droughts, and floods to food price spikes. At the same time, poor people and communities remain vulnerable to shocks that may be smaller in...

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2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); …

This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...

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