title: Emigration and development in Southern Africa, with special reference to Lesotho.
abstract: "The introduction defines development and describes the scope of the paper.  Section two briefly describes the historical evolution of [labor] migration in southern Africa, the ambiguities of data, and recent quantitative trends.  Section three discusses alternative theoretical perspectives.  Section four examines the case of Lesotho as an extreme example of a sending country and provides occasional allusions to other southern African sending countries.  Section five concludes that the most important effect of [labor] migration on development in southern Africa has been to trade short run income benefits for long run development difficulties."
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cobbe
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D000353:Africa, Southern; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006280:Health Workforce; D007927:Lesotho; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Cost Benefit Analysis; Demographic Factors; Demographic Impact; Developing Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; English Speaking Africa; Evaluation; Human Resources; International Migration; Labor Force; Lesotho; Migrant Workers; Migration; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Theory; Quantitative Evaluation; Reliability; Southern Africa