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Abstracts
Articles
Migration and Employment in Ho Chi Minh City
Females predominate among migrants to Ho Chi Minh City. Generally migrants are better educated and earn more than non-migrants, have similar unemployment rates and are more likely to be employed in the formal sector.
By Truong Si Anh, Patrick Gubry, Vu Thi Hong and Jerrold W. Huguet
Recent Trends in International Migration and Economic Development in the South Pacific
Improved education and equal opportunity employment constitute the strongest basis for the socio-economic development of Pacific island countries.
By Jean Louis Rallu
Demographic Implications of Health Care in Sri Lanka
By 2020, Sri Lanka will experience South Asia's most rapid population ageing.
By A.T.P.L. Abeykoon
Demographers' Notebook
Factors Affecting Variations in Fertility by States of India: A Preliminary Investigation
Migration and Employment in Ho Chi Minh City
Data obtained from a 1994 survey of migrants to Ho Chi Minh City form the basis for this study. The analysis finds that, following the Government's economic liberalization policies since 1986, the City's growth rate between 1989 and 1994 was 3.5 per cent annually, with the rate of natural increase being about 1.6 per cent and that of migration 1.9 per cent annually. Migration since 1989 has been concentrated in the age group 15-29 and is composed of a greater proportion of females than previously. More of recent migrants are single and have moved to attend school. Among females, there has been an increase in the proportion migrating for economic reasons. The article concludes with a number of recommendations for policy purposes.
Recent Trends in International Migration and Economic Development in the South Pacific
Migration from a number of countries and territories in the South Pacific was high in the second half of the 1980s, but has declined since 1990 owing to changes in the economic situation and the migration policies of host countries. Even though unemployment among islander migrants shot up to high levels in Australia and New Zealand during the aforementioned period in the 1980s, island societies have continued to encourage migration including "brain drain" for the purpose of promoting remittances, one of their two major external sources of foreign exchange, the other being international aid. The article concludes that sustainable development for the island societies cannot be based on the migration of unskilled workers. Among the several recommendations it makes is one calling for upgrading the quality of primary and secondary universal education; another is the provision of equal opportunity employment, without regard to gender, and social and ethnic origins.
Demographic Implications of Health Care in Sri Lanka
Population projections for Sri Lanka for the next 25 years show that the ageing process will gradually gather momentum. By 2020, the country will experience South Asia's most rapid population ageing. This phenomenon will demand that a higher proportion of financial and human resources be allocated for health care services in the coming decades. The article makes a number of recommendations for policy and programme purposes in this regard.
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