Live stream of the launch event for The European Report on Development (ERD) 2013. The latest report aims to provide an independent European contribution to the emerging debate on a possible post-2015 consensus on international development.
This Working Paper explores the relationship between migration, remote rural areas (RRAs) and chronic poverty in India and is part of a series of ODI/CPRC working papers entitled 'Spatial poverty traps: what are they and what can be done about them?'.
This paper identifies the kinds of migrant support that are needed in India if migrants are to continue adding to economic growth as they currently do
Provides an assessment of migration and remittance patterns in six districts of Bihar with a view to identifying practical steps that can be taken by the two projects to maximise the benefits and minimise the negative impacts of migration.
'Even though people are supposedly earning most of their income through agriculture, many in fact are away for part of the year in different occupations.'