Weekly links October 23: macro impacts of migration on poverty, big African cities and jobs, how to read a paper, and more… - World Bank Blogs

· How Nepal reduced poverty through international migration: Mahesh Shrestha has an excellent explanation of Nepal’s use of migration in In Development “In 1995, seven in 10 Nepalis lived in extreme poverty. By 2022, fewer than one in 40 did…Compared to the giants of extreme poverty reduction — China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and India — Nepal’s pace is matched only by China. The extreme poverty rate in Nepal now is lower than in the considerably richer Indonesia, India, and Bangladesh. Nepal’s journey out of extreme poverty also looked very different from that of these other countries.