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Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China's industrialization and urbanisation in … motives of and the constraints to labour mobility in China. Drawing on various empirical investigations at the household level …
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The aim of this paper is to study the relation between governance and migration in the case of a South-North partnership, using the tools of economic analysis. We will analyse both the governance of migratory phenomenon (i.e. the control of South-North migration, as much as the control of...
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The aim of this paper is to study the relation between governance and migration in the case of a South-North partnership, using the tools of economic analysis. We will analyse both the governance of migratory phenomenon (i.e. the control of South-North migration, as much as the control of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794874
The households who live in the rural areas of Northern Ghana base their subsistence on natural resources, which are threatened by the progressive desertification and increased frequency of extreme weather events in the region. We draw on a field work and on extensive secondary data sources to...
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We analyze the socio-economic determinants of youth decision to internally migrate in Senegal. Young people undertake mostly rural-to-rural and urban-to-urban migrations and over half of them are temporary migrants. Using multinomial logit models, we estimate the role of household and community...
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We match migration data from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological indicators of climate variability, based on the standardized...
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towards China's decentralization of environment policy implementation as well as its fiscal arrangements. …
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Since the inception of economic reforms, China in 1978 and Vietnam in 1986, both countries have become successful … between China and Vietnam?" through a comparative study of the FDI determinants. In other words, this paper revisits the … determinants of FDI into China and Vietnam by employing an augmented gravity model and using a panel dataset containing information …
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R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … perspective explaining the legacy of the past in today's choices. In the second part, we illustrate China's catching up strategy …
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rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a …
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