Managing Uzbek labor migration

Determinants Factor of Circular Labor Migration: Bangladesh Context

Economic growth of Bangladesh largely depends on unskilled and skill overseas manpower. Bangladesh is called an over populated country. She has much manpower but most of them are unskilled. So, Bangladesh is as one of the highest unskilled labor sending countries in the world and is gaining foreign remittance. After analysis the questionnaire survey, it has found that maximum labors are not sat...

Misguided guidelines for managing labor.

In a recent review we expressed concerns about new guidelines for the assessment and management of labor recommended jointly by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM). These guidelines are based heavily on a new concept of how cervical dilatation and fetal descent progress, derived from the work of Zhang et al. In their...

Migration, Transfers and Child Labor

Migration, Transfers and Child Labor We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and transfers to the household might induce a reduction in children’s...

Managing In- and Out-Migration of Health Workforce in Selected Countries in South East Asia Region

Background There is an increasing trend of international migration of health professionals from low- and middle- income countries to high-income countries as well as across middle-income countries. The WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel was created to better address health workforce development and the ethical conduct of international recruitment. T...

International Labor Migration in a Globalizing Economy