postulations of a WHO report on determinants of health-worker migration. …

This paper examines three relevant hypotheses on the incidence of health worker migration on human development and …) migration for the continent, the subject matter has remained empirically void over the last decades despite the acute concern of …

Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource (HHR) migration, the empirical dimension of the health … literature by empirically investigating the WHO hypothetical determinants of health-worker migration in the context of …

-worker migration. Findings provide a broad range of tools for the fight against health-worker brain-drain. As a policy implication …

This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if … remittances have increased human capital among the low-income nations, among the upper-middle-income nations, they have mostly …

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive … specifications explain indirect impacts. The findings broadly show that for certain initial levels of industrialisation, remittances …

Despite the established link between oil rent fluctuations and remittances received, its plausible joint effect on … positive macroeconomic signals such as remittances mitigate the negative effect of oil rents on economic growth in a sample of … marginal and net effect on economic growth from the interaction between remittances and oil rent. Also, the unconditional …

African nations have in time, passed over-relied on remittances inflow to augment domestic finances needed for growth …. Despite the volume and magnitude of remittances that have to serve as an alternative source of investment financing, African … remains mostly underdeveloped. The altruistic motives of sending remittances to Africa are likely to fade with time. In this …

The study employs macro data on 42 African countries to examine whether remittances and financial development …. Robust evidence from the dynamic GMM estimator shows that: (i) remittances heighten income inequality in Africa, (ii) Africa …'s financial system is not potent enough for repacking remittances towards the equalisation of incomes, and (iii) vis …