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Albania - Urban Growth, Migration and Poverty Reduction : A Poverty Assessment

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This sector report claims that in the three years between 2002 and 2005 alone, almost 235,000 people have moved out of poverty in Albania. Strong economic growth and large inflow of remittances are at the center of this impressive achievement. However, low productivity of predominantly small...

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Connecting lagging and leading regions : the role of labor mobility

Lall, Somik V. - 2009

"How can policies improve the welfare of people in economically lagging regions of countries? Should policies help jobs follow people? Or should they enable people to follow jobs? In most countries, market forces have encouraged the geographic concentration of people and economic activEities -...

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Trade costs and location of foreign firms in China

Amiti, Mary - 2005

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China - From Poor Areas to Poor People : China???s Evolving Poverty Reduction Agenda - An Assessment of Poverty and Inequality in China

World Bank - 2012

China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …

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China - From Poor Areas to Poor People : China???s Evolving Poverty Reduction Agenda - An Assessment of Poverty and Inequality in China

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Migration and poverty : toward better opportunities for the poor

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Climate change and migration : evidence from the Middle East and North Africa

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International migration and gender differentials in the home labor market : evidence from albania

Mendola, Mariapia - 2009

"This paper examines the role of male-dominated international migration in shaping labor market outcomes by gender in migrant-sending households in Albania. Using detailed information on family migration experience from the latest Living Standards Measurement Study survey, the authors find that...

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