INTRODUCTION The consequences of poor access and quality of healthcare services in developing countries are widely recognised by international agencies such as WHO. Moreover, with the HIV/AIDS pandemic wreaking havoc in sub-Saharan Africa, availability of trained physicians is essential for providing antiretroviral treatment to large numbers of individuals. Owing to emigration of physicians and...

ast year an article appeared in Healthcare Quarterly attempting to analyze and understand reasons nurses emigrate from Canada to the United States, specifically North Carolina (Pink et al. 2004). An introduction to the article appeared unsympathetic to this situation (Pringle 2004). I recently came across the Spring issue of a Canadian-based publication whose mission, as printed in the publicat...

Two earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010–11 caused 185 casualties, demolished much of the inner-city and significant job losses. We examine one form adjustment to these outcomes: (international) emigration. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we analyse employment emigration responses Christchurch workers relative matched elsewhere. also heterogeneity across subgroups defined b...

1. Local extinctions in habitat patches and asymmetric dispersal between patches are key processes structuring animal populations in heterogeneous environments. Effective landscape conservation requires an understanding of how habitat loss and fragmentation influence demographic processes within populations and movement between populations. 2. We used patch occupancy surveys and molecular data ...

T lymphopoiesis in the thymus was thought to be completed once it reaches the single positive (SP) stage, a stage when T cells are "fully mature" and waiting to be exported at random or follow a "first-in-first-out" manner. Recent evidence, however, has revealed that the newly generated SP thymocytes undergo a multistage maturation program in the thymic medulla. Such maturation is followed by a...

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The views and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily correspond to the views or policies of the Department for International Development (DFID), UK. SUMMARY This paper examines the experiences of the government, private sector, and civil society in managing international emigration from Bangladesh. The paper outlines complex processes of labour migrat...

Abstract This paper studies the effect of emigration on technological change in sending locations after one largest migration events human history, mass from Europe to United States 19th century. To establish causality, we adopt an instrumental variable strategy that combines local growing-season frost shocks with proximity ports. Using data patents, find led increase innovative activity locali...