Contributed articles presented at an international conference organized by DFID and Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka with reference to emigration and immigration in various South Asian countries for economic reasons

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty traps created by information problems and incorrect...

Taking off from the self-evident fact that the population variable centrally figures in both labor and product markets, this paper argues that the growth rate of population, its age structure and spatial distribution should be key considerations in a country’s development strategy to promote...