Midwifery and Nursing Migration: Implications of Trade Liberalization for Maternal Health in Low-Income Countries

Trading Women’s Health and Rights?: Trade Liberalization and Reproductive Health in Developing Economies

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 235-258

  Gerein, Nancy ^a   Green, Andrew ^b  

^a Nuffield Center for International Health and Development   (United Kingdom)

^b Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development   (United Kingdom)

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