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Covers issues of demography and development in the Middle East, the capital value of rising populations, the workings of the labor market, and the impact of migration and urbanization on the region.
Has the economic crisis of the 1980s in Sub-Saharan Africa increased mortality or at least reduced its rate of decline? Nationally, no. But the urban poor suffered more, the rural nonpoor less.
Remittances sent by African migrants have become an important source of external finance for countries in the Sub-Saharan African region. In many African countries, these flows are larger than foreign direct investment and portfolio debt and equity flows. In some cases, they are similar in size to official aid from multilateral and bilateral donors. Remittance markets in Africa, however, remain less developed than other regions. The share of informal or unrecorded remittances is among the highest for Sub-Saharan African countries. Remittance costs tend to be significantly higher in Africa both for sending remittances from outside the region and for within-Africa (South-South) remittance corr...
"This accessible and topical book offers insights to policy makers in both industrialized and developing countries as well as to scholars and researchers of economics, development, international relations and to specialists in migration."--BOOK JACKET.
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This publication contains selected papers from the 6th annual European conference, held in Brussels, Belgium in May 2004, which brought together 400 scholars and policymakers from 70 countries involved in international development issues. The conference discussions focused on the progress being made towards the Millennium Development Goals, including examining four key aspects that link developed and developing countries, relating to flows of people, capital, aid and trade.