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Migration and rural development

Year of publication 2007

Author Robert E.B. Lucas;Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The paper summarizes the key routes through which internal and international migration impact rural development and some of the evidence pertaining to these effects in low income countries. It concludes that, although the study of migration impacts on rural economies has come a long way from the early dual theories of development, some of the potentially more important aspects remain to be investigated systematically.

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