Emigration and Development in Southern Africa, with Special Reference to Lesotho.

The introduction defines development and describes the scope of the paper. Section two briefly describes the historical evolution of 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 migration on development in southern Africa has been to trade short run income benefits for long run development difficulties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]