Download or read book International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution written by Michael J. White and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers a comprehensive collection of essays that cover essential features of geographical mobility, from internal migration, to international migration, to urbanization, to the adaptation of migrants in their destinations. Part I of the collection introduces the range of theoretical perspectives offered by several social science disciplines, while also examining the crucial relationship between internal and international migration. Part II takes up methods, ranging from how migration data are best collected to contemporary techniques for analyzing such data. Part III of the handbook contains summaries of present trends across all world regions. Part IV rounds out the volume with several contributions assessing pressing issues in contemporary policy areas. The volume’s editor Michael J. White has spent a career studying the pattern and process of internal and international migration, urbanization and population distribution in a wide variety of settings, from developing societies to advanced economies. In this Handbook he brings together contributors from all parts of the world, gathering in this one volume both geographical and substantive expertise of the first rank. The Handbook will be a key reference source for established scholars, as well as an invaluable high-level introduction to the most relevant topics in the field for emerging scholars.
Download or read book Who s Hungry And how Do We Know written by Laurie Fields DeRose and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recognizes that any attempt to reduce hunger requires a sound understanding of which people are affected. It differentiates between food shortage (regional food scarcity), food poverty (inadequate household food supplies), and food deprivation (individual malnutrition) in order to identify the causes of hunger and recommend ways to effectively target interventions. It also focuses on a critical second question--how do we know who the hungry are? The authors explain commonly-used means of measuring hunger, the assumptions embedded in these measures, and what can and cannot be concluded from the evidence. They examine how rules for food distribution operate under normal versus crisis conditions. The shortage/poverty/deprivation framework is designed to call attention to hunger even when food is abundant, as well as to learn how hunger is avoided even when food is scarce. With many tools in place for combating hunger, the book draws attention to the policies that are working and to the individuals, households, and communities that are underserved. The book refines common thinking about the underlying causes of hunger by examining who are most affected.
Download or read book Casablanca written by Paul Puschmann and published by ACCO. This book was released on 2011 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, the modern metropolis of Casablanca, which today houses some three million inhabitants, was a small and unimportant coastal settlement. At that time, the Medina of Dar el Beida -- as Moroccans often call the city -- had only about 25,000 inhabitants. However, the arrival of the French changed Casablanca's destiny forever. Foreign investment and the construction of a large artificial ocean port transformed Dar el Beida swiftly into the new economic heart of Morocco. Like many other cities in the developing world, Dar el Beida attracted many times more migrants than it had jobs to offer. Consequently, unemployment increased and slums sprang up across the city. These ominous developments, however, did not stop hundreds of thousands of new immigrants arriving over the last century. As such, social disaster became inevitable. The author of this book explores the causes and consequences of persistent massive rural-to-urban migration to Dar el Beida during the twentieth century.
Download or read book International Migration and National Development in Sub Saharan Africa written by Aderanti Adepoju and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on achieving a better understanding of the implications of international migration for national development from the perspective of the sending countries (with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa). More specifically, the purpose of this volume is to explore (1) current perceptions - as seen from the perspective of the countries of origin - of the links between international migration and national development, and (2) current trends in policy making aimed at minimising the negative effects, while optimising the development impact. What are the dominant views and policy initiatives in the different countries of sub-Saharan Africa? It is concerned with the question of how a coherent international migration policy can contribute to the fight against poverty. In the book, update information is given of migration-development nexus in various countries, including Senegal and Burkina Faso, Botswana and Mozambique, Nigeria and Kenya . Attention is additionally paid to Mexico, the Philippines and the People's Republic of China.
Download or read book Report of the International Conference on Population 1984 written by Nations Unies. Département de la coopération technique pour le développement and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unfinished Agenda written by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades the world has made remarkable progress in improving the quality of life for millions of people, but the job of assuring sustainable food security for the world's poorest people remains unfinished. Booming populations, rapid urbanization,
Download or read book The Unavoidable Issue written by Demetrios G. Papademetriou and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-depth study of key issues pertinent to migration policy, proposed social reforms and the immigration debate in the USA - discusses historical and current trends (1850-1978), political aspects, labour market and economic implications, human rights of immigrants (incl. Migrant workers, refugees and irregular migrants, "temporary foreign worker" programmes, the influence and significance of labour policies, population policies, foreign policies, and economic policies; includes comparisons with Western Europe. References.
Download or read book Report of the International Conference on Population 1984 written by United Nations. Department of Technical Cooperation for Development and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1984 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hunger in History written by Lucile F. Newman and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1995-04-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunger in History represents the culmination of two years' work in human hunger by the members of the World Hunger Program at Brown University. In bringing together original and specially commissioned articles by some of the world's leading authorities on this topic, Amartya Sen, David Herlihy, Peter Garnsey, among others, the editors have succeeded in providing a strong cross-disciplinary base for the study of hunger. The volume, which includes 16 papers, looks at the problem of hunger from the beginnings of human society, defining and redefining the problem in ancient society and again in early modern and then contemporary society, and ends with an essay by the editors on solutions to the contemporary problem of hunger.
Download or read book How to Compare Nations written by Mattei Dogan and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In How to Compare Nations, Dogan and Pelassy have constructed a succinct and unconventional guide to the conduct of comparative analysis and the construction of social science theory. It should be required reading for all first-year graduate students; its use at the undergraduate level would be a sign of educational professionalism." – American Political Science Review
Download or read book Stretching Man s Mind written by Margaret Harmon and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Conference on Population 1984 Mexico City 6 14 August 1984 written by E. I. Demetriades and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Population and the American Future written by United States. Commission on Population Growth and the American Future and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tides Among Nations written by Karl Wolfgang Deutsch and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Macroeconomic Report on Latin America and the Caribbean written by and published by UN. This book was released on 2012 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Macroeconomic Report on Latin America and the Caribbean is a new ECLAC publication designed to meet the need for up-to-date analysis of the region's macroeconomic performance amid shifting conditions. It compliments the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean and the Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Download or read book Computer Models of Thought and Language written by Roger C. Schank and published by W H Freeman & Company. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modeling Public Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Carlos de Miguel and published by UN. This book was released on 2010 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly integrated world where the pace of change is accelerating, policy decisions need to be taken with little hesitation. However, their development effectiveness requires that they are also based on solid analytical foundations. Given the existence of information asymmetries and coordination failures, multilateral development institutions have an opportunity to support their member countries in the assessment of policies that require complex background analysis, particularly when their effects spill over beyond the border of any given country. In this context the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) have formed a partnership to promote a regional network of computable general equilibrium (CGE) modellers that facilitates the exchange of analytical findings, techniques and data, with the ultimate objective of better serving policy makers in policy formulation. The regional meetings of CGE modellers, held annually in a different country of the region, have been instrumental in promoting intraregional transfer of analytical technologies and in bringing the region closer to international best practices. This book includes a selection of studies discussed in past annual meetings on modelling. They deal with issues such as trade policy, regional integration, trade in services, fiscal policy, the impact of food price surges and climate change; are based on comparable methodologies; and shed light on crucial implications of crucial policy alternatives that Latin American regional policymakers are currently facing.
