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Arusha, Tanzania: 10-14 December 2007
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Session 75:
Urbanization and human welfare

Thursday, December 13
2:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Tausi
Serengeti Wing. Ground Floor
Chair: Mary-Ellen Zuppan, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
Discussant: Jean-Christophe Fotso, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

1. Local development as a means to combat the rural-urban migrations: The Tunisian experience  •  Zitouni Belgacem, Institut National Pédagogique et de Formation, Tunis

2. Contextualizing the role of population growth in forest cover change in Malawi  •  Leo C Zulu, Michigan State University

3. Demographic dimensions of the urbanization process in selected African countries: New prospects and challenges  •  Mohammad Mirzaie, University of Tehran; Nader Motie Haghshenas, Population Studies and Research Center in Asia and the Pacific; Mahmoud Moshfegh, Population studies and Reseach Center For Asian And the pacific; Hossein Javadkhani, Tabriz Azad University, Iran

4. Moving in and moving up: migration and schooling outcomes among school age children in Nairobi slums  •  Kanyiva Muindi, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC); Eliya M. Zulu, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC); Evangeline N Nderu, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC); Ousmane Faye, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

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