Challenges in the Era of Globalization - iaabd

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from the planned programme then service exports from the developing countries would be achieved. In
the Philippines the “nurse for export” programme has been implemented to test the concept (Binod,
2008). The question of managing the movements of professionals to developed countries ostensibly for
better emoluments and conditions is prevailing in Africa and cannot be overcome easily. There is the need
for this kind of research to throw more light on the issue and propose a planned solution. The proposed
research it is hoped would lead to an internationally coordinated policy response to the challenge. Also
the research will map out implementation activities to propel the programme and add to existing
knowledge on the subject. It is envisaged that the research would help policy makers to initiate a
structured program that would increase service exports, create awareness to reflect the changing needs of
the sectors discussed and promote the service in general. This will ensure that developing countries would
benefit from the phenomenon and it would lead to increases in service exports.
Problem Statement
The migration of health and education workers has been a great challenge for most developing countries.
Some experts have called for managed migration to benefit developing countries. But from the economic
view point, such migration could be repackaged into service exports that will enhance and monitor the
issue to the benefit of developing countries. Most developing countries are already exporting some form
of service but the lack of awareness of existing service activities and services that could be exported, the
need for appropriate regulation and support makes the activity challenging and a “no go” area for most
business organizations.
Looking at the rate of migration, there is the need for health and education services sectors of developing
countries to incorporate exporting activates or functions into their operations to make the profession
attractive and encourage the professionals to be part of the planned programme. Also government could
take advantage of the phenomenon to benefit financially from a well thought out and planned health and
education service exports from developing countries. And this will call for the inclusion of service into
national export strategies and plans of developing countries.
Another salient issue in exporting services internationally is the standardization and/or adaptation of
services in other countries due to the high level of people processing and the intangibility nature of
services. The need for residency and local experience recruitment requirement for recognized
professionals in most countries is a big challenge for exporting services.
Many researchers have delved into the issue but no tentative solutions have come up. The need to
repackage migration of health and education professional services into managed service exports to the
benefit of nations is an issue that much attention has been given but little has been done in that area.
Export activities in many developing countries focus on goods overshadowing the opportunities in
diversifying into service exports. And this explains the lack of empirical and theoretical framework that
can be examined to encourage and foster service exports from developing countries. Albeit there is the
need to have an implementation or mapped out plan to harness and export health and education services
from developing countries.
Objective of the study
The general objective of the proposed research is to establish the need to repackage health and education
worker migration into an effective service exports. In this respect, the objectives that the study would
attempt to achieve include the following:
• To develop a strategic plan with specific activities to harness and export health and education
services
• To map out an implementation strategy for managing and exporting services.
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