Managing economic crisis will require organisational and regional cooperation, based upon shared and mutually respectful understandings of the causes of, and solutions to, economic turbulence. In the wake of the 1997-98 Asian economic crisis, and following extensive collaboration between Thai...

In the last few decades there has been a resurgence of interest in the social causes of health inequities among and between individuals and populations. This \'social determinants\' perspective focuses on the myriad demographic and societal factors that shape health and well-being. Heeding calls...

Talent flow is a process whereby economically valuable individuals migrate between countries, and is arguably a more important global career influence than international flows of personnel within global organizations. In this article, we reject the term brain drain as too restrictive and focus...

L'aide internationale au développement apportée par le monde riche aux pays pauvres (« en développement ») représente d'importants flux de capitaux, de ressources humaines et d'assistance technique. Tandis que la direction nette de ces flux reste très controversée, on a identifié...

International development assistance from richer to poorer (“developing”) economies accounts for major flows of capital, human resources and technical assistance. While the net direction of these flows remains a topic of hot debate, there have been several barriers identified to the...

'A mush of meaningless gobbledegook' (Blunt and Jones, 1997, p. 913). It has been hard to know how to formulate a response to Blunt and Jones' scholarly rebuke of our paper on 'The meaning of work in Malawi' (Carr et al., 1997), in which we present data that are neither 'obvious' nor...

Human resources are increasingly seen as vital to developing nations, but studies of work motivation remain focused on manager elites rather than the general workforce, and on motivation 'at' particular workplaces rather than the wider meaning 'of' work in societies at large. In an adaptation of...

Studies of expatriate effectiveness have tended to restrict themselves to Westerners sojourning in non-Western countries or to non-Westerners studying in the West, thereby overlooking non-Western expatriates working in Third World countries. Reconstituting diverse principles from social...

Against a backdrop in which in which psychology is being increasingly criticised for failing to meet the pressing needs of Third World' peoples, we report findings from Malawi relevant to the management of health services in the tropics. Surveys of beliefs regarding malaria, schistosom iasis,...

It is now over two decades since Gergen (1973) argued that social psychology is historical, and this paper re-examines his arguments in the light of more recent social changes in Tropical Africa. Malawi has experienced major sociopolitical upheavals and from the outside, with much of the agenda...