The UN Conference of Women, held in Beijing in 1995, provided a forum for the exploration of current feminist topics. This volume presents papers from that conference, discussing in detail issues in gender studies and development, from rural and urban poverty to population and family planning....

"This book examines current policy discussions around the migration-development nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current re-discovery of migrants as agents of development nexus into theoretical and historical...

"This final report was prepared by Bruno Losch, Sandrine Fréguin-Gresh and Eric White (World Bank), with contributions of Thierry Giordano and Jean-François Bélières (Cirad). It was peer-reviewed by Derek Byerlee, Don Larson (World Bank), and André Pouilles-Duplaix (AFD). The report draws...