The post-2015 developmental agenda and the SDGs have been formulated to advance holistic global progress and enable the adoption of quantitative targets for all countries by recognizing their respective national realities and capacities. This research examines how global ambitions can guide...

Introduction : a more mobile world, or not? / Tony Champion, Thomas Cooke and Ian Shuttleworth -- Understanding the drivers of internal migration / Anne Green -- Studying internal migration in a cross-national context / John Stillwell, Martin Bell and Ian Shuttleworth -- Global trends in...

In this paper we investigate the urban/rural dimension of poverty in developed countries. We provide original estimates for Italy, we gather published statistics for France and the United States, and we produce novel cross-country estimates from the LIS database. We show that the size of urban...