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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Seasonal Poverty and Seasonal Migration in Asia
Beteiligte:
Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq;
Reimão, Maira Emy
Erschienen:
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd, 2020
Erschienen in:
Asian Development Review, 37 (2020) 1, Seite 1-42
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1162/adev_a_00139
ISSN:
1996-7241;
0116-1105
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Beschreibung:
Four in five poor people in the Asia and Pacific region live in rural areas. Crop cycles in agrarian areas create periods of seasonal deprivation, or preharvest “lean seasons,” when work is scarce and skipped meals become frequent. In this paper, we document this phenomenon of seasonal poverty and discuss existing formal mechanisms for coping with it. We then focus on seasonal migration from rural to urban areas as a potential coping strategy and review the evidence on the effects of encouraging seasonal migration through transport subsidies. Over the past 10 years, we have conducted a series of randomized control trials in Bangladesh and Indonesia that provided rural agricultural workers with small migration subsidies to pay for the cost of round-trip travel to nearby areas in search of work. This paper summarizes the lessons learned from this multicountry, multiyear series of seasonal migration trials, the implications of these results for spatial misallocation, urbanization, and growth, and the replicability and relevance of this and other policies encouraging domestic migration more broadly for other areas in the Asia and Pacific region.