The Ghana Statistical Service released findings from the 2019 recruitment cost pilot survey conducted in four districts in the Ashanti, Bono and Bono East regions that sampled households with return and current international migrants. The survey aimed to measure SDG Indicator 10.7.1 (Recruitment cost borne by employee as a proportion of monthly income earned in country of destination) under SDG 10.7 which aims to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies. SDG 10 focuses on the reduction of inequality within and among countries.
The findings reveal the concerning statistic that only a third of migrant workers travelled abroad with a work visa; the others either went legally but without a work visa or through unapproved routes. The points to a need to implement policies to provide productive and profitable means to engage the working age population to discourage them from illegally migrating abroad.
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