Human development report 2009 : overcoming barriers : human mobility and development.

Overcoming barriers : human mobility and development

HDR 2009 overcoming barriers : human mobility and development

New York : United Nations, 2009.

xiii, 217 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color charts ; 28 cm

Published for the United Nations Development Programme.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and statistical annex.