Breaking out of poverty traps: Internal migration and interregional convergence in Russia

Internal migration and interregional convergence in Russia1

In this paper, we study panel data on region-to-region gross migration flows in Russia for 19952010. We find that barriers to labor mobility that hindered internal migration in 1990s, have been generally eliminated by the end of 2000s. In 1990s many poor Russian regions were in a poverty trap: potential workers wanted to leave those regions but could not afford to finance the move. In 2000s (es...

the role of russia in transmission of energy from central asia and caucuses to european union

پس ازفروپاشی شوروی،رشد منابع نفت و گاز، آسیای میانه و قفقاز را در یک بازی ژئوپلتیکی انرژی قرار داده است. با در نظر گرفتن این منابع هیدروکربنی، این منطقه به یک میدانجنگ و رقابت تجاری برای بازی های ژئوپلتیکی قدرت های بزرگ جهانی تبدیل شده است. روسیه منطقه را به عنوان حیات خلوت خود تلقی نموده و علاقمند به حفظ حضورش می باشد تا همانند گذشته گاز طبیعی را به وسیله خط لوله مرکزی دریافت و به عنوان یک واس...

the investigation of research articles in applied linguistics: convergence and divergence in iranian elt context

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Pakistan: Internal Migration and Poverty Reduction

Poverty Traps ?

Despite the considerable amount of research devoted to economic growth and development, economists have not yet discovered how to make poor countries rich. As a result, poverty remains the common experience of billions. One half of the world’s people live on less than $2 per day. One fifth live on less than $1. 1 If modern production technologies are essentially free for the taking, then why is...