Inter-urban Migration in Advanced Countries

Managing In- and Out-Migration of Health Workforce in Selected Countries in South East Asia Region

Background There is an increasing trend of international migration of health professionals from low- and middle- income countries to high-income countries as well as across middle-income countries. The WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel was created to better address health workforce development and the ethical conduct of international recruitment. T...

Tracking rural-to-urban migration in China: Lessons from the 2005 inter-census population survey.

We examined migration in China using the 2005 inter-census population survey, in which migrants were registered at both their place of original (hukou) residence and at their destination. We find evidence that the estimated number of internal migrants in China is extremely sensitive to the enumeration method. We estimate that the traditional destination-based survey method fails to account for ...

Internal Migration in Developing Countries

Urban Transportation in Asian Countries

Large cities in Asia have unique transport problems. Traffic management alone is limited in solving the problems of urban transportation, and introduction of guided transit systems separate from ground-level transport is essential in solving these problems. This article describes some of the recent measures, including finance resources, taken to solve Asian urban transportation problems. The ad...

Inter-city Migration and Policy

The seminal Buchanan-Ng club model is used to analyze optimal allocation of population between non-homogenous cities. Because of externalities (marginal welfare effects), migration cannot alone ensure efficiency and policy intervention is needed. In principle, a first-best optimum is achievable, if the externalities are properly calculated and internalized to people’s decisions by local or cent...