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Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a … push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological …
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The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of … urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL …
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A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three...
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in the form of ‘demographic bonus ’. Urbanization is also expected to continue. Thus it seems that India⠅
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Historically, urbanization has been a great force of economic transformation, modernization and social change in the … developed world. On the flip side, migration has been blamed for the woes of modern cities overlooking the fact that urban … planning and governance are equally responsible. Indian cities are a result of large scale migration over time-a fact which has …
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The current perspective on the flow of people is almost exclusively focused on permanent migration from poorer to …
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The India Migration Bibliography covers over 3,000 books, research articles and reports written on the subject of … internal migration, international migration and diaspora, related to India. The bibliography is inter-disciplinary and provides … considerable interest to academics and non-academics working on migration related issues. [SSRN]. …
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This paper records the findings of a small investigation into a fragment of experiences of people living on streets and into the social, economic, nutritional situation of urban homeless men, women, boys and girls in four cities: the metropolises of Delhi and Chennai, and the cities of Madurai...
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relationship between chronic, or long-term, poverty and processes of migration. The paper presents a framework to enable an … stay, the processes by which they are compelled or excluded from adopting migration as a livelihood strategy and the … circumstances under which migration sustains chronic poverty or presents an opportunity to move out of poverty [WP No. 16]. …
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intervention opportunities that can occur throughout the migration process, and points to the potential benefits of policymaking …
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