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Migration, school attainment, and child labor : evidence from rural Pakistan

Mansuri, Ghazala - 2006

"Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects, in part, borrowing constraints that inhibit private investment in human capital by the poor. One promise of the recent proposals to open international labor markets to allow for...

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Broadband Wireless Access in Egypt

World Bank - 2013

This paper discusses current and future developments in wireless technology and infastructure in Egypt. One of the important regulatory decisions made in Egypt is that policy related to broadband wireless will be technology neutral. Consequently, the regulator cannot decide about which operators...

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Unlocking Electric Mobility Potential in MENA

World Bank - 2023

transition and decarbonization. Electric mobility, or e-mobility,has become one of the rapidly developing opportunities to … Africa (MENA), different local circumstances lead to different rationales for adopting various modalities of e-mobility … Mobility Potential in MENA” funded by the ESMAP, MOLO and PPIAF trust funds, set out to examine the opportunities and …

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

Wodon, Quentin (contributor) - 2014

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Migration and economic mobility in Tanzania : evidence from a tracking survey

Beegle, Kathleen - 2008

staying in agriculture, although growth is always higher in any sector if one physically moves. Economic mobility is strongly … linked to geographic mobility. The puzzle is why more people do not move if returns to geographic mobility are high. The …

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Migration, sex bias, and child growth in rural pakistan

Mansuri, Ghazala - 2006

"Temporary economic migration is undertaken largely in response to resource constraints. This is evident in the volume of remittances sent back by migrants to their families of origin. In agricultural settings, where those left behind are likely to face considerable exposure to uninsured income...

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Migration in towns in China, a tale of three provinces : evidence from preliminary tabulations of 2000 census

Shi, Anqing - 2006

"There is a concern that the growth of towns in China has been stalled recently and with it, the creation of nonfarm jobs in rural industries. The author uses the 2000 census tabulations to look at this issue by examining in-migration in towns in three provinces in China-Zhejiang, Henan, and...

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Involuntary resettlement in Africa : selected papers from a conference on environment and settlement issues in Africa

Cook, Cynthia C. (contributor) - 1994

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

World Bank - 2012

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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Migration and Economic Development in Kosovo

World Bank - 2013

Kosovo has one of the largest international migration flows in the world. Much emigration has been for economic reasons and to escape armed conflict in the late 1990s; resolution of the conflict does not appear to have offered migrants enough incentive to return. Even though migration slowed...

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