This volume is the first in a new Springer series to examine one of humanity’s most pressing concerns: global migration and its implications for development.

The first text that specifically links both international and internal migration with development at a global level. The world is divided into a series of funct

Reviews the experience of five major emigration countries: India, Mexico, Morocco, the Philippines and Turkey over the last half century, in order to analyse th

Perspectives on Global Development 2017 presents an overview of the shifting of economic activity to developing countries and examines whether this shift has le

The report argues that internal migration can play an important role in poverty reduction and economic development; internal migration should therefore not be c