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Searching with a thematic focus on Globalisation, Gender and migration, Movement people labour migration, Migration, Migration of skilled workers

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  Globalization and goals: does soccer show the way?

  World Bank Publications, 2003

  This paper uses the example of the globalised game of football to illustrate how forces of efficiency but also inequality unleashed by globalisation can be used by global institutions to help improve the outcome for the poor countries.The paper examines the effects of free circulation of labour combined with increasing commercialisation on the concentration of soccer quality in a few top clubs.
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  From brain drain to brain gain: how the WTO can make migration a win-win

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This short article examines the issues surrounding international free trade in labour markets.
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  Human resources: international context: Chapter 6 of the South African Health Review 2005

  Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2005

  This chapter, from the South African Health Review 2005, reviews human resources for health in South Africa from an international perspective. It highlights the vast inequities in global and regional distribution of health workers and briefly examines those factors affecting human resource development.
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  Promoting fair human flows: an Arab human development perspective

  Global Development Network, 2005

  The potential for emigration from a country of origin is essentially determined by perceived disparity in welfare between the country of origin and likely countries of destination. For a meaningful assessment of migratory potential, welfare has to be defined in a wide sense, a material one as well as a non-material one.
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  Globalization, skilled migration and poverty alleviation: brain drains in context

  Sussex Centre for Migration Research, 2005

  The paper provides an analysis of skilled migration and identifies main global trends. It goes on to examine the globalisation of education and of health as reflected in the movement of students and health personnel. The paper examines the case for a two-tiered health training system, one for global markets and the other for local markets.
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  International migration, remittances and the brain drain

  World Bank Publications, 2005

  This study examines the economic effects of migration, especially its impact on economic development. A compilation of articles are structured into two parts in the volume.
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  The global migration of talent: what does it mean for developing countries?

  2005

  This paper explores available policy responses to human capital flows improve the net effect on development without making the international migration system even more illiberal than it is today. Altogether the ‘brain drain’ is large and has been growing over he past years.
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  Early departures: the emigration potential of Zimbabwean students

  Southern African Migration Project, 2005

  This study examines the causes for Zimbabwe’s brain drain. It presents the results of a survey of final-year college and university students in Zimbabwe.
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  Cutting edge pack: gender and migration

  BRIDGE, 2005

  How does migration advance or impede gender equality? How can policy-makers and practitioners promote gender equality in work on migration? This report seeks to answer these questions by looking at both internal and international migration, regular and irregular migration, as well as across the spectrum from forced, such as trafficking, to voluntary migration.
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  The migration of physicians from sub-Saharan Africa to the United States of America: measures of the African brain drain

  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 outside of the US, with a majority trained in low-income or lower middle-income countries.

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