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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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  Camel jockeys of Rahimyar Khan: findings of a participatory research on the life and situation of child camel jockeys

  Save the Children [Sweden], 2005

  This research, undertaken in Rahimyar Khan in the southern Punjab, Pakistan, aims to contribute to an enhanced understanding of the nature, underlying causes and consequences of child trafficking as camel jockeys.
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  International recruitment of health workers to the UK: a report for DFID

  DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC), 2004

  This report, by the Health Systems Resource Centre, provides an overview of the implications of international recruitment of health workers to the United Kingdom (UK). The authors find that there has been significant growth in doctors and nurses from other countries to the UK as a result of active recruitment by the National Health Service (NHS) as well as recruitment by the private sector.
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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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  A problem by a different name?: a review of research on trafficking in South-East Asia and Oceania

  International Organization for Migration, 2005

  This article reviews the existing research and literature on trafficking in South-East Asia and Oceania – concentrating on those countries that are usually classified as destination countries in the region, including Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.
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  Global aging and fiscal policy with international labor mobility: a political economy perspective

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. It looks at links between migration, aging, the economy and politics in sending countries.
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  Globalisation and education: what do the trade, investment and migration literatures tell us?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This paper examines the effects of education on globalisation, and vice versa, the effects of globalisation on education, as well as looking at the role of public policies in reconciling processes of human resource development and globalisation.The main links between economic globalisation processes and education are examined by discussing and testing three issues:the quantity and quali
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  Empowering woman migrant workers in Asia: briefing kit files

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  This kit explores migrant women’s experiences through real-life stories, facts about women's migration for work in Asia, accounts of gendered violations and impacts throughout the migration cycle, and the contributions and capacity of women migrants.
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  Migrant women from West Bengal: livelihoods, vulnerability, ill-being and well being: some perspectives from the field

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  This paper examines the issues faced by migrant women from West Bengal to Delhi, as understood through interactive discussion sessions with such groups. Specifically, the authors met with elderly migrant women who had migrated from West Bengal to Delhi without their families.
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  Commitment to Development Index, 2005

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  The Commitment to Development index measures donor countries' committment to development by monitoring not only dollar values of aid, but also trade, investment, migration, security, environment, and technology policies.

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