Human development report 2009: Overcoming barriers: human mobility and development. / - New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - xiii, 217p.: 28cm.

Contents: 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 -- Conclusions -- How movers fare: Incomes and livelihoods -- Health -- Education -- Empowerment, civic rights and participation -- Understanding outcomes from negative drivers -- Overall impacts -- Conclusions -- Impacts at origin and destination: Impacts at places of origin -- Destination place effects -- Conclusions -- Policies to enhance human development outcomes: The Core package -- The Political feasibility of reform -- Conclusions.

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