remittances has a positive effect on emigration intentions of household members living in the country of origin. Therefore …

attaining a higher living standard and expected low job search costs abroad are strong forces that drive emigration intentions … potential migrants are only present in Ghana and Egypt. The differences in intentions by age and sex are also quite noteworthy … judging from their stated intentions although there are signs of negative selection within the group of return migrants in …

Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model … to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the … household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The results indicate that vulnerability is very sensitive to the time …

consideration of the perceptions of important classes of stakeholders on the performance outcomes of the various cities involved …

other stakeholders; and (3) policy intervention failures that are due to a lack of consistency among government policies in …