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"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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.6 billion in 2021.1 Ninety-five percent of the world's population now has access to a mobile network. Acknowledging the …
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"Adams uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) on poverty in Guatemala. With only one exception, he finds that both internal and international remittances reduce...
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to stall in the mid-2000s. The Urban Mobility Initiative for the Western Balkans region was launched by the World Bank … Group to conduct a high-level, comprehensive diagnostic assessment of urban mobility in the 10 selected cities in the WeBa … region. The overarching aim of the assessment is to identify interventions for urban mobility-related challenges and …
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"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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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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"Internal migration plays an important role in moderating regional differences in well-being. This paper analyzes migrants' choice of destination, using Census and Living Standard Surveys data from Nepal. The paper examines how the choice of a migration destination is influenced by income...
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