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  • Forced displacement in the Great Lakes region (English)

    At the end of 2013, there were about 3.3 million people who remained forcibly displaced within the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of Africa. Of these, 82 percent were internally displaced persons (IDPs) and...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 94563 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • The ECA's diaspora populations can aid growth and development (English)

    The diaspora populations from Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries are large in both absolute and relative terms. Nearly 11 percent of the population in the region resides outside the country of birth...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 67970 Document Date: April 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Canagarajah,Roy S.,Heleniak,Timothy E.

  • Where on Earth is everybody? : the evolution of global bilateral migration 1960-2000 (English)

    Global matrices of bilateral migrant stocks spanning 1960-2000 are presented, disaggregated by gender and based primarily on the foreign-born definition of migrants. More than one thousand census and population...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 75257 Document Date: February 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ozden, Caglar, Parsons, Christopher R., Schiff,

  • Quantifying international migration : a database of bilateral migrant stocks (English)

    This paper introduces four versions of an international bilateral migration stock database for 226 by 226 countries and territories. The first three versions each consist of two matrices, the first containing...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4165 Document Date: March 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Parsons,Christopher Robert,Skeldon, Ronald,Walmsley,Terrie Louise,Winters,L. Alan

  • Immigration policy and foreign population in Switzerland (English)

    With more than 20 percent, Switzerland is one of the countries with the largest foreign population. Since 1970 the government has tried to manage the flows of migrants in the hope of reconciling a chronic...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3853 Document Date: February 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gross,Dominique M.

  • Explaining U.S. immigration, 1971-98 (English)

    The authors develop and estimate a model explaining the level and country-source composition of United States immigration since the early 1970s. The model incorporates ratios of source country income...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3252 Document Date: March 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Clark, Ximena, Hatton, Timothy J., Williamson, J

  • Revised estimates and projections of international migration : 1980-2000 (English)

    This report reviews the World Bank's latest international migration statistics for every country in the world for each five year period from 1980 - 2000. The estimates and projections of net international...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS275 Document Date: August 31, 1989 Disclosure Status: Author: Arnold, Fred

  • Kuwait - The economic development (English)

    Kuwait has oil resources estimated at about one fifth of the world total. These resources give it a much more important role than its geographical dimensions and population might indicate. Because of the...

    Document Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report No.: UNN32 Document Date: November 30, 1961 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: