International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries to improve economic opportunity, has enormous implications for growth and welfare in both origin and destination countries. An important benefit to developing countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from...

Developing countries start the decade facing two major challenges: to continue the social and economic progress of the past 30 years in an international climate that looks less helpful; and to tackle the plight of the 800 million people living in absolute poverty, who have benefitted too little...

Power, rights, and poverty reduction / - Ruth Alsop and Andrew Norton -- - Linking power and poverty reduction / - Rosalind Eyben -- - Rights, power and poverty reduction / - Caroline Moser -- - Power relations and poverty reduction / - David Mosse -- - Empowerment and institutional change :...

The themes of the 2006 Global Economic Prospects (GEP) are international remittances and migration, their economic consequences, and how policies can increase their role in reducing poverty. The GEP explores the gains and losses from international migration from the perspective of developing...