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Migration Policy and its Interactions with Aid, Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment Policies: A Background Paper

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It is recognised that migration can, under certain conditions, generate important net gains for the migrants’ home countries. These gains may be in terms of growth, poverty reduction, insurance against risk and accumulation of human capital. Moreover migration may interact in various and complex ways with other policy vectors such as trade, investment and development assistance and they may have various joint impacts on development. This paper reviews the literature on the impact of migration more...

Added by Meria Puhakka on July 11, 2006

Effects of Migration on Sending Countries: What Do We Know?

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This paper, focusing mostly on European migration, provides an evaluative review which aims to enhance our understanding of migration and its potential role for development. This report evaluates the evidence on how migration may promote or hinder development in countries of origin, and explores possible win-win solutions for both sending and receiving countries. The analysis of recent OECD data of foreign-born nationals into Europe documents the presence of multiple migration patterns and more...

Added by Meria Puhakka on July 11, 2006

Investment in Population Health in Five OECD Countries

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There is growing interest in the potential for preventive interventions to improve average health status in OECD countries and to tackle remaining health inequalities. The interest is in a wide range of interventions spanning not only health services but also measures to influence behaviour and lifestyles and action to improve the contribution of the social, economic and physical environments to health. These interventions are referred to in this paper as examples of a government's 'population more...

Added by Susan Pasquariella on February 24, 2004

Working Paper: The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality: Do Fathers Really Matter Less than Mothers?

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By Lucia Breierova and Esther Duflo, OECD Development Centre This paper takes advantage of a massive school construction program that took place in Indonesia between 1973 and 1978 to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school construction program generates instrumental variables for the average education in the household, and the difference in education between husband and wife. We show that female education is a stronger more...

Added by Meria Puhakka on December 01, 2003

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