After the labor migrants leave: The search for sustainable development in a sending region of the Ecuadorian Amazon

World Development

Volumn 34, Issue 5 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 838-851

  Rudel, Thomas K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecuador; Latin America; rural to urban migration; sustainable development; women

Indexed keywords

LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRANT WORKER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645950443     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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