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Human development report 2009: Overcoming barriers/ United Nations Development Programme - New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - xiii, 217 p. col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.

How and why people move --
Barriers to movement --
The case for mobility --
Our proposal --
The way forward --
Freedom and movement : how mobility can foster human development --
Mobility matters --
Choice and context : understanding why people move --
Development, freedom and human mobility --
What we bring to the table --
People in motion : who moves where, when and why --
Human movement today --
Looking back --
Policies and movement --
Looking ahead : the crisis and beyond --
How movers fare --
Incomes and livelihoods --
Health --
Education --
Empowerment, civic rights and participation --
Understanding outcomes from negative drivers --
Overall impacts --
Impacts at origin and destination --
Impacts at places of origin --
Destination place effects --
Policies to enhance human development outcomes --
The core package --
The political feasibility of reform --
conclusions.

ISBN: 9780230239043

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Multiculturalism
Quality of life
Technological innovations--Social aspects
Economic development--Social aspects
Climatic changes
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects
Social indicators
Economic development

Dewey Class. No.: 338.9 / UNI/H