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  Skilled health professionals’ migration and its impact on health delivery in Zimbabwe

  The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford, 2004

  This paper, published by the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, investigates the magnitude of migration of health professionals from Zimbabwe, the causes of such movements and the associated impacts on health care delivery. It establishes the major reasons for migration including: poor living conditions, low wages and political violence.
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  Building towers, cheating workers: exploitation of migrant construction workers in the United Arab Emirates

  Human Rights Watch, 2006

  This report documents alleged exploitation of construction workers by employers in the United Arab Emirates.
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  Coherence for development: economic recommendations for Spain

  Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estrategicos, Madrid, 2006

  This paper looks at the coherence of donors’ economic policies with the objectives of the official international development cooperation policy.It outlines the potential benefits – and the conditions required to realise those benefits – and risks associated with the following policy areas:tradeemigrant remittancesforeign direct investment (FDI)external debt, restructuring an
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  The impact of international migration on the economic development of countries in the Mediterranean basin

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2006

  The intense debate continues on the potential poverty reducing effects of remittances. This paper analyses the impact migrant workers’ remittances have in stimulating local economic development.
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  Recognising the importance of international migration

  Eldis Gender Resource Guide, 2006

  The recent UN High Level Dialogue on Migration provided a platform for the articulation of many related issues that are bound up with the possibilities and perils of globalisation.
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  The international migration of health workers: a human rights analysis

  Medact, 2005

  This MedAct report argues that a human rights framework provides a way to examine the social, political and economic problems that are caused by and come from the international migration of health workers.
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  The "skills drain" of health professionals from the developing world: a framework for policy formulation

  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 developing countries underestimate the pressures for migration, and mis-identify the reasons for rising migration.
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  Why do migrants return to poor countries? Evidence from Philippine migrants’ responses to exchange rate shocks

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006

  Economic models of migration behaviour have sought to explain why migrants might return to a poorer home country. Models suggest that some migrants are motivated by the desire to earn more over their lifetime in the host country, while others aim only to earn a ‘target’ amount before returning home.
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  Migration policy and its interactions with aid, trade, and foreign direct investment policies: a background paper

  OECD Development Centre, 2006

  This paper reviews the literature on the interconnections between migration, rich-country trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and development assistance, and the positive and negative effects on the sending countries’ development.
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  The EU return policy: premises and implications

  European University Institute, Italy, 2006

  This paper discusses the development and potential implications of the European Union Return Policy.The paper argues that the EU return policy has been viewed as an instrument aimed at tackling illegal migration and at protecting the integrity of the EU migration and asylum policy as well as the migration and asylum systems of the Member States.

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