"In June 2010 Kenya's Sports and Youth Affairs minister announced that Kenya would send at least 10,000 youths to work abroad under the government's plan to check youth unemployment. She told parliament that 390 young people had been employed in war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan under the programme established in 2008.

"Due to poor economic conditions on the domestic front, the Philippines export human resources for health to richer countries throughout the world and increasingly in the region as an income-generating mechanism. While the immediate financial returns seem promising, equity issues have surfaced concerning the negative effects of international trade in health services and workforce migration on national health systems, especially in widening disparities in the public-private mix or in rural-urban differentials of poorer countries