Global migration database -- Quantifying international migration: a database of bilateral migrant stocks / Christopher R. Parsons, Ronald Skeldon, Terrie L. Walmsley and L. Alan Winters -- Impact on development -- The impact of remittances on poverty and human capital: evidence from Latin...

Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood. The book identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies main global flows - trade, finance, aid, migration, and...

Poverty reduction is deemed to be a centrepiece of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) currently being negotiated under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Yet there is considerable debate about the poverty impacts of such an agreement. Some are convinced it will increase poverty,...