Research Catalog

Title

At home in the world? : international migration and development in contemporary Ghana and West Africa / edited by Takyiwaa Manuh.

Author

International Conference on Migration and Development in Ghana (2004 : Accra, Ghana)

Publication

Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Manuh, Takyiwaa.
• United Nations Development Programme (Ghana)
• University of Ghana. Institute of African Studies

Description

354 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Subject

• Since 1960
• Ghana > Economic aspects > Congresses
• Ghana > Social aspects > Congresses
• Africa, West > Economic aspects > Congresses
• Africa, West > Social aspects > Congresses
• Ghana > Economic conditions > 1979- > Congresses
• Africa, West > Economic conditions > 1960- > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Accra (2004)
• Kongress.

Note

• "Papers originally presented at the International Conference on Migration and Development in Ghana, held in Accra, September 14-16, 2004 ... organized by the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP in Ghana and the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana, Legon"--P. 21.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Patterns of migration in West Africa / Aderanti Adepoju -- Ch. 2. Volume and characteristics of international Ghanaian migration / Kwaku Twum-Baah -- Ch. 3. The international legal regime and migration policies of Ghana, the ECOWAS sub-region and recipient countries / E. Yaw Benneh -- Ch. 4. The Dutch perspective on contemporary migration / Renee Bos-Jones -- Ch. 5. The macroeconomic impact of remittances / Ernest K. Y. Addison -- Ch. 6. Origin and destination of remittances in Ghana / Valentina Mazzucato, Bart van den Boom and Nicholas N. N. Nsowah-Nuamah -- Ch. 7. The remittances of Senegalese migrants : a tool for development? / S. M. Tall -- Ch. 8. Migration and development : current policy challenges / Frank Laczko -- Ch. 9. Understanding the opportunities for and challenges to migrants' investment in La Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana / Richmond Tiemoko -- Ch. 10. Migration, return and impact in Ghana : a comparative study of skilled and unskilled transnational migrants / John K. Anarfi, Stephen O. Kwankye and Clement Ahiadeke -- Ch. 11. The health of the nation and the brain drain in the health sector / Frank Nyonator and Delanyo Dovlo -- Ch. 12. The brain drain in the higher education sector in Ghana / Takyiwaa Manuh, Richard Asante and Jerome Djangmah -- Ch. 13. At home abroad -- human capital and Ghana's development / Richard Joseph -- Ch. 14. Reaping the gains of Ghanaians overseas : an evaluation of the home coming summit of 2001 / Takyiwaa Manuh and Richard Asante -- Ch. 15. The religious dimension in migration and its relation to development : Ghanaians in the Netherlands / Gerrie Ter Haar -- Ch. 16. The role of diaspora-based organization in socio-economic development at the local level in Ghana / Samuel Zan Akologo -- Epilogue : HE Alfred Saliah Fawundu

ISBN

• 9988550677 (hard cover)
• 9988550790 (pbk.)
• 9789988550790

LCCN

• ^^2006306925
• 9789988550677

OCLC

65216047

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library