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Public concerns in Europe and Central Asia over the recent sharp increase in asylum seekers and undocumented migrants seem to reflect a broader anxiety about reduced job security, caused by technological developments and internationalization of production and work. Policy reforms should help...
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The overall context for the study is partly provided by the three pillars of the World Bank's new forest strategy (Sustaining Forests: A Development Strategy, 2002), which focuses on how the Bank can most effectively contribute to harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty, to...
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The Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 updates the 2008 edition of the Factbook with additional data for 71 … national sources. The Factbook attempts to present numbers and facts behind the stories of international migration and … migration flows, relative to population, are weaker than those of the last decades of the nineteenth century. The top migrant …
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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 exogenous violence, households are expected to consider migration, and …
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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 … norms using original and detailed data on migration. The results provide evidence of a significant transfer of fertility …
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