Father absence due to migration and child illness in rural Mexico

Certified to migrate: Property rights and migration in rural Mexico

Improving security of tenure over agricultural land has recently been the focus of a number of large land certification programs. While the main justification for these efforts was to increase productive investments and facilitate land rental transactions, we show that if access rights were tied to actual land use in the previous regime, these programs can also lead to increased outmigration fr...

The Nexus between Rural-Urban Migration and Child Labour in Agriculture in Delta State Nigeria

This study was conducted in Delta State Nigeria to establish a nexus between rural-urban migration and child labour. Random sampling was applied to select rural settlements and this study covers 450 sample farming households. The results show that rural-urban migration influence child labour (P

Under-employment and rural migration in iran

CHRONIC DIARRHEA DUE TO GANGLIONEUROMA IN A CHILD

Ganglioneuroma is a very rare cause of chronic diarrhea in children. This benign tumor usually presents with diarrhea and failure to thrive. It is necessary for physicians to be familiar with this rare cause of chronic diarrhea. Here we present and discuss such a case.

Migration and capital accumulation: Evidence from rural Mexico

This paper studies the link between migration, remittances and productive assets accumulation for a panel of poor rural households in Mexico over the period 19972006. In a context of financial markets imperfections, migration may act as a substitute for imperfect credit and insurance provision (through remittances from migrants) and, thus, exert a positive effect on investment. However, it may ...