Distribution Of The Households Covered By Rapid Screening Survey

According to The Washington Post, statistics of immigration has been non-stop growing ever since 1970’s. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, the population grew with an average of at least 500,000 a year (Beck, 1996). Later during the 1990’s the amount of immigrants doubled to 1 million/year. Having this many immigrants come into the U.S. leads to poverty. According to “The Huffington Post”, in 2012, the poverty rate for foreign-born was 19.2% and those that are native-born had a poverty rate of 14.3% (Bernstein, 2014). These statistics show that the immigrants have a greater amount of poverty than natural-born citizens of America. The reason why people migrate to the United States is to have a better life. Immigrants did not come to the U.S. to be put right back where they were, poverty. Most immigrants come from countries where it is complicated to make a living. For instance, in the Philippines, it is hard to even find food and to find shelter if you are homeless. The same would be if these immigrants came to America. Not being able to eat a full meal or being able to afford shelter in America would be just the same as if it were the immigrant’s home

The country of Nicaragua, located in the center of Central America, is one the poorest nations in Latin America. Nicaragua’s citizens are primarily mestizo who account for almost 70% of the population. With a population of nearly six million, 58.8% of Nicaraguans live in urban areas, with nearly 2% of citizens migrating from rural areas to the cities in search of jobs and better welfare. However, internal migration to rural areas also exist seasonally for agricultural labor. Due to the current economic standing of the nation, Nicaragua’s current population growth rests at 1%, while losing 3 out of 1,000 citizens due to emigration. While the nation has seen small growth in its GDP at a 4.5% growth rate, many Nicaraguans continue to migrate out of the nation. In 2009, is was estimated that 42.5% of Nicaraguans lived below the poverty line, with the lowest 10% of citizens sharing 1.4% in household income. In 2008, it was recorded that underemployment rate was at 46.5% (CIA Factbook). When looking at the statistics and numbers for this nation, it is easy to understand the reasoning for many Nicaraguans emigrating out of their country.

(2007) attributes disparities in income between skilled immigrants and refugees to the fact that “refugees are admitted […] primarily on humanitarian rather than economic grounds”, less concerned about “their ability to establish themselves [and their] economic potential” and more about “their need for Canada’s protection” (18). Yu argues that because of this, refugee populations tend to be less educated and possess lower levels of language skills, leading to lower levels of income. Indeed, Krahn et. al (2000) found that only 43% of the refugees interviewed has received post-secondary credentials at home, compared to the Alberta average of 49% (p.63). Meanwhile, DeVoretz et al. (2004) found that over half of his refugee sample spoke neither of Canada’s official language. while over 70% of skilled immigrants

In today’s postmodern society, international migration has truly become a global phenomenon. From 1975 to 2005, the number of people living outside their country of birth more than doubled to 191 million (Bloemraad). From 1960 to 2005, the number of countries hosting more than 500,000 migrants increased from 30 to 62 (United Nations). Furthermore, in 2006, immigrants accounted for at least ten-percent of the total population in fifty-three countries (New York Times). These extraordinary trends are the result of rapid industrialization, political and cultural developments, and drastic environmental changes.

Today upwards of 190 million individuals are thought to cross outskirts consistently, and relocation has turned into a fundamental and unavoidable piece of worldwide social and monetary improvement. All the more significantly, the likelihood of moving somewhere else is turning into an undeniably key piece of how individuals see the world they live in. With up to 2% of the total populace living outside of their nation of birth, the potential effect of populace versatility on wellbeing and on utilization of wellbeing administrations of vagrant host countries is expanding in its significance (Gushulak 2004). The drivers of portability, the procedure of the worldwide development, and the forward

The study is found that 14.29% were villager, 33.33% CMC-BMC members and 52.38% other refugee were involved in these

Coverage: The target population under SJSRY was the urban poor living below the poverty line, which was demarcated by the Planning Commission on periodical

XXXVII NO.29 New Delhi,Oct.,20-26,2012,pp.1&56 presented MGNREGA Sameeksha as an anthology of independent research studies and analysis on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act from 2006-2012 provides a platform for evaluation of a law desired to assist the most invisible people in India. Dre’ze Jean and Sidarth Lal, “Employment Guarantee”: NREGA, The Hindu, July 13, 2007 delineated about NREGS in Rajasthan have come to the conclusion that Rajasthan comes first in terms of employment generation per rural household under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). The share of women in NREGA employment is around two thirds in Rajasthan, and that of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe households is as high as 80 percent. The inspection team visited three blocks of Jhalawar district (Bakani, Dag and Sunel), verified job cards and muster rolls in half a dozen villages, and had detailed discussions with labourers, mates, sarpanchs, gram panchayat secretaries, engineers, Programme Officers and block development officers, among others. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 Operational Guidelines, 2012, 4th Edition, Draft Submitted By Mihir Shah Committee to Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India , February 2012 presented the guidelines of MGNREGA that should be kept in mind by the officials. Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), An

With tensions rising in Ukraine, Syria becoming a site of possible military intervention and the Arab Spring movement prolonging internal conflict, It is important to look at examples from the near past to understand the reasons behind trends so we might mitigate in a productive and beneficial way. Also it is imprtant to understand the trends that occur after particular events so we might predict future needs. This report will look at two developing countries, Serbia and Bosnia and Hercegovina(BIH), who share a bloody past, one from the position of agresor, one of an occupied country. The aim is to see how the the conflict and its consequences influenced their GDP, poverty levels and migrations. And how has the change in those then influenced development work in the respective countries. The report will further concentrate on the couses and effects of migration in the countries. The raw data was collected from a number of sources and agregated to produce the tables shown.

The results presented in Table 4 indicate that once adjusting for individual and household characteristics, migration impacts children’s allocation of time through different channels. Living in a household with at least one international migrant but that does not receive remittances has a positive and statistically significant association with the number of hours that children allocate to farm work and study. Children allocate on average 8

"The migration of Bangladeshi transient workers is ultimately beneficial for Singapore 's economy." Transient workers migrate to more economically stable countries due to factors such as lack of job opportunities and low wages in their country, as well as the better working conditions offered in the country they choose to migrate to. The workers usually hail from rural areas with low-paying jobs; even those are scarce. The migrant workers usually are not very highly-educated, with most being lowly-skilled. Locals in that host country are usually reluctant to take up labour-intensive and low-skill jobs that pay low wages, as their country is of an affluent status and they have been trained and educated to, to be a part of the skilled workforce. In the migrant 's country, however, labour shortage in these areas are rare as most countries do not have attitudes towards such jobs the way locals in their host country do, so foreign workers often fill these positions in the country they choose to migrate to. This way, the host country 's economy will benefit as it now has sufficient manpower and the migrant workers ' pay are much lower than that of the locals in the host country. However, some of the lower-skilled locals may believe that the migrants are stealing the jobs rightfully meant for them; resulting in some locals treating the migrants badly. A worry for the government is that if these low-skilled workers stay here permanently, they may destroy the national identity the

The paper titled “Poverty Profiles and Coping Strategies of the Hoar (Ox-bow lake) Households in Bangladesh” provides poverty estimates using different methods for Hoar areas of Bangladesh. The paper also gives a clear overview of how poor households face the seasonal poverty incidence that is endemic to this region. The main strength of the paper is relatively large sample size covering hoar areas across different districts of north-eastern part of Bangladesh. Since author(s) has a rich data set, I was expecting that there would be many interesting findings and dynamics from the author’s analysis. However, findings on poverty estimates and coping strategies that the author obtained are less dissimilar than what we can observe in most of the rural areas in Bangladesh. In addition, there are some issues that the author needs to take care of before the paper got published. My comments are as follows:

With limited livelihood diversification in the regions, many rural household have embraced migration as an adaptive strategy to cope with the impact of harsh climatic conditions such as drought and floods. Permanent and temporary migrations from rural north to urban south are becoming important livelihood strategies, often viewed as a pathway out of poverty and to improve household income sources and individual well-being (Assan and Obeng 2009). Van der Geest (2010) argued that remittances from rural–urban migrants currently contribute much more to rural household income than incomes from agriculture in sheer size and importance, as persistent

A publication of government of Pakistan, it provides information of population, demographic characteristics, household size and composition.

Midpoints of 45.2 lakh individual days of employment every districts have been created. Out of aggregate 90.51 Crore individual days, the share of Scheduled Castes was 22.95 Crore individual days (25.36%) and Scheduled Tribes was 32.99 (36.45%) constituting a sum of 55.94 Crore individual days for SCs/STs which comes to about 62%. According to the NREGA, the share of ladies individual days ought to be 1/3rd and the same was 36.79 Crore individual days, which is about 41%. Amid 2007-08 (up to September 2007), 1.97 Crore households have requested employment and 1.88 Crore households have been given employment. An aggregate of 56.14 Crore individual days of employment has been created under the Program. Out of this, the offer