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"The authors compare the welfare effects of in situ slum upgrading programs with programs that provide slum dwellers with better housing in a new location. Evaluating the welfare effects of slum upgrading and resettlement programs requires estimating models of residential location choice, in...
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This report " Country Social Analysis (CSA) " focused on ethnicity and development in Vietnam is a provocative analysis of marginality in contemporary Southeast Asia. It seeks to understand the macro social and political processes, and provides an analysis of how social, political, and cultural...
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This report " Country Social Analysis (CSA) " focused on ethnicity and development in Vietnam is a provocative analysis of marginality in contemporary Southeast Asia. It seeks to understand the macro social and political processes, and provides an analysis of how social, political, and cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550852
The characteristics of indigenous groups make participatory approaches especially critical to safeguarding their interests int he development process. Such approaches, recognizing the right of indigenous peoples to participate actively in planning their own futures, are supported by major donors...
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from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study finds that the performance of migrants from countries with lower … initial occupational placement levels improves at a higher rate compared with that of migrants originating from countries with …
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2006 European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions show that internal migrants are a relatively small share of the … as outside the European Union), this paper finds that migrants tend to include a concentration of both low as well as … highly educated workers. Both sets of migrants uniformly contribute to raising the working-age population of receiving …
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norms from migrants to their country of origin: a one percent decrease in the fertility norm to which migrants are exposed …
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Series data for the 2000 Census. Among women and for labor market outcomes such as labor force participation, employment, and … Blacks. Among men, for labor force participation and employment, foreign-born Blacks are doing better than native Blacks. The …
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