By Rayhan Demetrie
[BBC News], Dushanbe - Usually at this time of the year, thousands of migrants would be travelling abroad in search of seasonal work.
Last year over a million Tajiks found work abroad, mainly on construction sites in Russia.
But the Russian building industry is at a standstill, and as a result Tajikistan is experiencing a [...]
This European Commission proposal focuses on modernising the provisions of the Electronic Money Directive, with special reference to the prudential regime of electronic money institutions, ensuring consistency with that of payment institutions under the Payment Services Directive. It aims to enable new, innovative and secure electronic money services to be designed, provide market access to new [...]
This is the first independent assessment of the impact of the UK Department of Health’s code of practice on the international recruitment of health professionals. This 8-page report looks into the effectiveness of policies intended to mitigate the impact of ‘brain drain’ in the health sector.
The paper examines trends in inflows of health professionals to [...]
Certain countries are at a higher risk of social and political instability because of declining remittances from their workers abroad. Some of these countries will endure the lack of income amid a global financial crisis with a minimum of disruption while others could experience significant turmoil. It depends, in large part, on available jobs for [...]
Arab-European Human Rights Dialogue Network - At a recently concluded conference at the Hague, Arab and European human rights institutions and international organizations agreed on a series of recommendations to protect the rights of migrant workers in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis. Roughly one out of every thirty-five persons in the world [...]
by Paul Collier
Comment is Free, THE GUARDIAN, UK - Port-au-Prince- Beyond the begging bowl: Haiti need not be a failing state. Its problems are fixable if only the world community co-ordinates.
Haiti is on all the lists of “failing states”. Yet the persistence of its troubles demonstrates not so much their intractability as the past incompetence [...]
