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, shifting power, and cultural uniformity. Globalization, Growth, and Poverty focuses on globalisation in terms of growing …
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. Integration--or "globalization"--has generated anxieties about rising ineuality, shifting power, and cultural uniformity. This … globalization to provide opportunities for poor people and to reduce and mitigate the risks it generates. This report presents three … main findings that bear on current policy debates about globalization. First, poor countries with around 3 billion people …
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The Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 updates the 2008 edition of the Factbook with additional data for 71 countries collected from various sources, including national censuses, labor force surveys, population registers, and other national sources. The Factbook attempts to present numbers...
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"This paper examines how households trade off migration and savings when subject to exogenous violence. The authors propose that households under violence decide jointly on migration and saving, because a higher asset-stock is more difficult to carry to a new place. When confronted with...
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"This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...
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"The authors examine the impact of migration on educational attainment in rural Mexico. Using historical migration rates by state to instrument for current migration, they find evidence of a significant negative effect of migration on schooling attendance and attainment of 12 to 18 year-old boys...
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