Abstract This article examines the effects of extreme weather events on internal migration in Mongolia. Our focus is dzuds , extremely harsh winters characterized by very cold temperature, snowfall anomalies, and/or storms causing high livestock mortality. We exploit exogenous variation intensity winter across time and space to identify their causal impacts permanent domestic migration. databas...

South Africa (SA), like the rest of the Southern African Development Community, has a high prevalence of communicable diseases, an increasing non-communicable disease burden, and diverse internal and cross-border population movements. Healthy migration is good for development, but current prevention, testing and treatment responses within public health systems - particularly for chronic conditi...

Comparing the current economic situation of the internal markets of the US and the EU, two things are noticeable. On the one hand, the EU is conducting massive regional policy programmes (notably with their Structural Funds) to foster economic cohesion among the 27 nations belonging to the single European market while in the US with its 50 federal states such policies play a rather subordinate ...