This article briefly describes the Soninke labor migration, and interprets it as a means of diversifying risk in a context of missing insurance and credit markets. Historical and anthropological studies on this ethnic group are briefly surveyed, and suggest that it is not only the well-being of...

El articulo reviso el debate suscitado en torno al Informe 2008 del Banco Mundial didicado especificamente al tema <<Agricultura para el Desarrollo>. El Informe ha tenido considerables repercusiones politicas, contribuyendo a situar la atencion a la agricultura en el centro de la agenda de desarrollo internacional, y ha abierto...</<agricultura>

(English) In this working paper I have analyzed the migration trend in Italy and the implemented politics in favor of immigrates in the local welfare systems during the last 10 years, the main goal has been to evaluate the effect of PDZ in the municipalities studied and analyze their real...

En France, en 2010, un dixième de la population active était immigrée. Quel impact cet apport d’actifs a-t-il eu sur les salaires et l’emploi des natifs ? Une analyse centrée sur la substitution entre natifs et immigrés montre d’abord que l’immigration n’a pas eu d’effet sur les...

In the last decades in most European countries urbanization can be observed, characterized by a tendency towards expansion of big cities into their environs with a decreasing number of inhabitants living in urban cores (urban sprawl). The result is networked, poly-centric forms of concentration....