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  Commonwealth teacher recruitment protocol

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004

  This document provides the full text of the Commonwealth teacher recruitment Protocol, adopted by Ministers of Education on September 1st, 2004.
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  Teachers as community leaders: the potential impact ofteacher migration on Education for All and Millennium Development Goals

  Centre for Comparative Education Research, University of Nottingham, 2004

  This paper highlights the importance of the role of teachers in developing countries not only as educational leaders, but also in recognising their contribution to wider community and national development. The paper argues that the migration of teachers is an underemphasised aspect of globalisation, and potentially hinders the international goals of education for all and its wider impacts.
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  Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2002: toward pro-poor policies: aid, institutions and globalization

  Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2004

  This report presents numerous papers from the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, held in June 2002, in Oslo, Norway.The report contains papers on aid, institutions and globalization, providing a general overview of links between poverty, inequality and growth.
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  The Indian diaspora’s political efforts in the United States

  Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2004

  As the Indian diaspora has begun to assert its financial and political power in the United States since the 1990’s, the Indian government has been developing a process of granting dual-citizenship to certain persons of Indian origin.
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  Copenhagen Consensus: challenge paper on population and migration

  Copenhagen Consensus, 2004

  Many countries receiving migrants are attempting to manage immigration by discouraging potential migrants through tighter controls and restrictions of benefits. This paper argues that this is not an optimal solution. Rather, the overall goal is to create a world in which migration is unnecessary because sufficient opportunity exists at home.
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  International migration, remittances, and poverty in developing countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003

  This paper examines the impact of international migration and remittances on poverty in a broad cross-section of developing countries.
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  Labour migration in Asia: trends, challenges and policy responses in countries of origin

  International Organization for Migration, 2003

  This book explores the new patterns and trends that are emerging in labour migration in Asia, which are affected by not just the labour market, but also national and social circumstances.
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  Policy responses to skilled migration: retention, return and circulation

  International Migration Branch, ILO, 2003

  This paper looks at different possible policy responses to the emigration of highly skilled persons from developing countries (the brain drain) with the goal of minimising its adverse effects and promoting the sharing of gains between source and host countries.It focuses on three policy approaches: retention, return and circulation of skills.
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  Migrant remittances to developing countries: a scoping study: overview and introduction to issues for pro-poor financial services

  Bannock Consulting, 2003

  This study offers an introduction to remittances and their developmental contributions, with a particular focus on issues related to financial services.
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  Asian labour migration: issues and challenges in an era of globalization

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  In this paper the author examines the trends and issues in Asian labour migration and challenges faced by countries and the trade union movement in the protection of migrant workers.The author first discusses problems with current terminology and examines some popular myths about migrant workers.

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