Documents et rapports

Migration, Growth, and Poverty Reduction in Rural China : Retrospect and Prospects (anglais)

Rural-to-urban migration in China has transformed the lives of millions of rural residents. This paper reviews empirical evidence on the impacts of migration on the welfare of individuals and households...

Fears and Tears : Should More People Be Moving within and from Developing Countries, and What Stops This Movement ? (anglais)

Only one in seven of the world’s population has ever migrated, despite the enormous gains in income possible through international and internal movement. This paper examines the evidence for different...

Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries : Lessons from the Literature (anglais)

This paper reviews the recent literature on rural-urban migration in developing countries, focusing on three key questions: What motivates or forces people to migrate? What costs do migrants face? What...

Internal Migration in Ethiopia : Evidence from a Quantitative and Qualitative Research Study (anglais)

This Note takes a closer look at the scale and nature of internal migration in Ethiopia. While a Population Census offers the best source of data to study internal migration, the most recent Census was...

Nicaragua - Rural And Urban Access Improvement Project : environmental assessment (Vol. 6 of 8) : Valoración ambiental social tramo I: Las Piedrecitas (km 6+830)- Mateare (espagnol)

Bolivia - Rural Alliances Project : additional financing - social assessment : Evaluación social y plan de acción para la actualización y complementación (espagnol)

Nicaragua - Rural And Urban Access Improvement Project : environmental assessment (Vol. 5 of 8) : Valoración ambiental y social del proyecto de mantenimiento periódico de la carretera San Lorenzo - Muhán, tramo Pk. 183+000 – Pk. 213+000 con una longitud de 30.00 Km. (espagnol)

Village Water Supply: Economics and Policy in the Developing World, 1976 (anglais)

The result of this study was the research paper, Village Water Supply Economics and Policy in the Developing World, written by Robert J. Sounders and Jeremy J. Warford of the Bank’s Energy, Water and Telecommunications...

Telecommunications externality on migration : evidence from Chinese Villages (anglais)

This paper uses a unique natural experiment in Chinese villages to investigate whether access to telecommunications-- in particular, landline phones -- increases the likelihood of outmigration. By using...

Internal migration benefits China's rural areas (anglais)

Do rural areas benefit when their residents migrate to cities? A new national identity card and a program to facilitate legal temporary residence in the cities have made migration easier for rural residents...

China - Rural Migrant Skills Development and Employment Project (anglais)

Relative deprivation and migration : theory, evidence, and policy implications (anglais)

The authors examine the importance of absolute income and relative deprivation incentives for internal and international migration in developing country households. Empirical results, based on Mexican...

Labour mobility and intrafamilial income transfers : theory and evidence from Botswana (anglais)

Remittances by migrants, along with migration itself, are elements in a migrant-family's intertemporal contractual arrangement. This paper discusses the reasons why the migrant and his family voluntarily...

The distribution of income in India's Northern wheat region (anglais)

The paper concludes with tentative results on large farmers, landless workers and landowners of various types of scenarios involving income effects of food price changes, food aid, reduced population growth...

A framework for international comparisons of systems of cities (anglais)

Regional inequalities, spatial biases of national policies, and the problem of metropolitan area externalities are examined. Achieving particular city or metropolitan area sizes or trying to meet particular...