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Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are time consuming and are relatively rare in social science research. Such a method, however, was used in the South Asia Migration study (SMS) conducted by the Centre for...
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The paper addresses the migration-development debate by developing a framework for understanding who are the migrants, what they are sending back, and how these transfers are being utilised in the local economy. It argues that the social backgrounds and migration histories of migrants –...
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This paper draws upon a selection of narratives from interviews with over 150 less skilled emigrant and returnee women workers from Trivandrum district to argue that the conditions that structure international migration from Kerala marginalises women, narrowing the material base from which...
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This paper charts the complex dynamics of the movement of technical talent in the world economy and assesses broadly the impact of such mobility on both sending and receiving countries. Based on secondary data and primary information from the Indian and Japanese IT industry, the study presents a...
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This study undertakes impact analysis of remittances on poverty in developing countries at two levels. Firstly, it estimates the impact of remittances on poverty in 77 developing countries; Secondly, separate analyses are undertaken for 29 developing countries and 21 Asian developing counties,...
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Human talent is a key economic resource and a source of creative power in science, technology, business, arts and culture and other activities. Talent has a large economic value and its mobility has increased with globalization, the spread of new information technologies and lower transportation...
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within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …
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All foreign observers have interpreted China through the filter of their own era, as well as their personal background … and experiences. A virtual academic industry has developed, not on China itself but on 'interpretations', 'perceptions …' or 'images' of China, but the narrower, though not always separate, issue of scholarly approaches and interpretations …
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Ernest Morrison Lecture on Ethnography, 2003, The Contemporary China Centre] …
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In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the West -- as high as 1.07 in China … campagins. Hepatitis B is common in many Asian countries, especially China, where some 10 to 15 per cent of the population is … hepatitis B can account for about 45 per cent of the "missing women": around 75 per cent in China, between 20 per cent and 50 …
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