ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2005

In association with Development Policy and Practice and the International Development Centre at the Open University

Milton Keynes, UK
7th-9th September 2005

Connecting people and places: challenges and opportunities for development

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9TH
CHAIR: JOANNA CHATAWAY, DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND PRACTICE, OU

AID, RESTITUTION AND INTERNATIONAL FISCAL REDISTRIBUTION IN HEALTH CARE: REFLECTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF RISING HEALTH PROFESSIONAL MIGRATION
Maureen Mackintosh, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Open University

This paper and presentation reflects on one aspect of ‘globalisation’ in health. It examines the migration of health professionals from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, to the USA and other high income countries, and its implications for international fiscal relationships. Its central concern is the impact of this aspect of globalisation on the necessity for fiscal transfers from rich to poor, on the form they do and should take, and more broadly on the reworking that is implied of the conceptual and political framework for fiscal relationships between rich countries and Sub-Saharan Africa.