Migration and Poverty : Towards Better Opportunities for the Poor.

This volume uses recent research from the World Bank to document and analyze the bidirectional relationship between poverty and migration in developing countries. The case studies chapters compiled in this book (from Tanzania, Nepal, Albania and Nicaragua), as well as the last, policy-oriented chapt...

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Main Author: Murrugarra, Edmundo
Other Authors: Larrison, Jennica, Sasin, Marcin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : World Bank Publications, 2010.
Series:Directions in Development.
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Summary:This volume uses recent research from the World Bank to document and analyze the bidirectional relationship between poverty and migration in developing countries. The case studies chapters compiled in this book (from Tanzania, Nepal, Albania and Nicaragua), as well as the last, policy-oriented chapter? illustrate the diversity of migration experience and tackle the complicated nexus between migration and poverty reduction. Two main messages emerge:Although evidence indicates that migration reduces poverty, it also shows that migration opportunities of the poor differ from that of the rest. In.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages)
ISBN:9780821384374
0821384376
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.