Ghana and Migration
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- What the children say: experiences of the migrant children from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India and Ghana
- J. Anarfi; S. Gent; I. Hashim / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
- There is a significant gap between how children see their own experiences of migration and the way that child migrants are often represented. This report presents accounts from 16 children from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India and Ghan...
- Current policies underestimate the pressures and mis-identify the reasons for rising migration from low income countries
- L. Henry; M. Mackintosh; K. Mensah / Medact, 2005
- This paper from MedAct examines policy towards health professionals’ migration from perspective of economics and governance. The authors argue that current policy responses to migration of health professionals from low income dev...
- How remittances can disadvantage non-migrant households
- L. Cotula; C. Toulmin / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004
- This paper, prepared for FAO’s Land Tenure Service and Sub-programme, explores the role remittances have on people’s access to land and natural resources. The project (designed and implemented as a scoping study) identifies ...
- How health worker migration affects quality of care in Africa
- G. Awases; A. Gbary; J. Nyoni; R. Chatora / Regional Office for Africa, World Health Organisation, 2004
- This report, published by the WHO Regional Office for Africa, examines migration of health professionals in six African countries (Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe) during 1991-2000. It finds that the number...
- Better data needed to track medical brain drain
- A. Hagopian; M. Thompson; M. Fordyce / Human Resources for Health, 2004
- This Human Resources for Health paper details the characteristics and trends in migration to the United States (US) of physicians trained in sub-Saharan Africa. Findings reveal that more than 23 per cent of US physicians were trained ...
- Does internal migration harm educational opportunities for children in Ghana, or offer more?
- I.M. Hashim / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2005
- This paper explores the linkages between children’s independent migration and education, both formal and non-formal, who have moved from rural, farming households in northern Ghana to rural and urban households in central and sou...
- The use of informal remittance systems in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific countries
- F. Pieke; N. Van Hear; A. Lindley / The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford, 2005
- This study presents a synthesis of knowledge about informal remittances to African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, and their influence on development in those countries. Country specific reports for Surinam, Sudan, Somalia, Senegal,...
- Improving UK remittance services for migrants
- Department for International Development, UK, 2005
- This report provides comparable and accessible information on the products and services available to people wanting to send money home from the UK to developing countries. The report aims to increase transparency on costs, speed of mo...
- Harnessing the investment potential of migrants remittances: the importance of family ties
- Richmond Tiemoko / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- Family ties are key to securing valuable remittances and financial investment from migrants to their home countries. Although migrants who maintain close family ties frequently send money back home, the investment potential of such re...
- Migration policy and the poor in West Africa
- R. Black; S. Ammassari; S. Mouillesseaux; R. Rajkotia / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004
- This paper reports on the findings of a survey conducted on migration and pro-poor policy in West Africa. The paper identifies the importance of migration to the poor, discusses migration policies, key issues and policy gaps in each c...
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