Migration, urbanization, and development : new directions and issues /

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Meeting name:Symposium on Internal Migration and Urbanization in Developing Countries (1996 : New York, N.Y.)
Imprint:[New York] : United Nations Population Fund ; Norwell, Mass., USA : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1998.
Description:x, 531 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2880264
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Other authors / contributors:Bilsborrow, Richard E.
ISBN:0792380320 (acid-free paper)
0792380339 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes:"Proceedings of the Symposium on Internal Migration and Urbanization in Developing Countries, 22-24 January 1996, New York."
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1.. The State of the Art and Overview of the Chapters
  • Part 1.. Old and New Patterns of Internal Migration and Urbanization in Developing Countries
  • 2.. What Do We Know about Recent Trends in Urbanization?
  • 3.. Recent Internal Migration Processes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Determinants, Consequences, and Data Adequacy Issues
  • 4.. New Trends in Urban Settlement and the Role of Intraurban Migration: the Case of Sao Paulo/Brazil
  • Part 2.. Migration Determinants and Linkages with Economic Growth
  • 5.. Rural Out-Migration in China: A Multilevel Model
  • 6.. Migration Motivation, Family Links, and Job Search Methods of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in India
  • 7.. Measuring the Macroeconomic Impact of Internal Migration: A Production Function Approach with Evidence from Peru
  • Part 3.. The Consequences of Migration
  • 8.. Migration and Urbanization in West Africa: Methodological Issues in Data Collection and Inference
  • 9.. Assessing the Consequences of Internal Migration: Methodological Issues and a Case Study on Thailand Based on Longitudinal Household Survey Data
  • 10.. Rural-Urban Migration and Development: Evidence from Bangladesh
  • 11.. Migration and the Fertility Transition in African Cities
  • Part 4.. Migration, Urbanization Processes, and Implications
  • 12.. A Reassessment of Migration and Urbanization in Mexico in the 20th Century
  • 13.. The Coping Capacity of Latin America's Cities
  • 14.. Urban Economic Growth in the 21st Century: Assessing the International Competitiveness of Metropolitan Areas
  • Appendix. Internal Migration and Urbanization Recommendations. Symposium on Internal Migration and Urbanization in Developing Countries: Implications for Habitat II