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  • Title: Development planning and international migration in the Sudan.
    Author: El Murtada Mustafa M.
    Journal: Labour Soc; 1980 Jan; 5(1):85-98. PubMed ID: 12278318.
    Abstract:
    Sudan's Six-year Plan of 1978 envisaged a 7.5% annual growth rate, which is unrealistically high. Centralized government has been notoriously weak in the Sudan. Only limited progress in integrated planning has been made. Out migrations of labor suggests that almost 180,000 Sudanese (without wives or children) were working abroad in 1978. Since 1974 out-migration has been increasing. The rise of capital holdings and construction development in the oil-rich states of the Middle East is depleting the urban markets of labor in Sudan. The proportion of the workforce abroad has risen to 3% of the total in the country. Roughly 80% of Sudanese migrants are skilled clerical or professional; 90% are aged 20-39 and have, on average, more education than nonmigratory Sudanese. More than 10% of all migrants have a post-secondary school education or training. Only 1% of the adult male population has the same amount of education. The remittances of foreign exchange resources held abroad by Sudanese residents are an estimated U.S. $2,133,000 in 1975. A symposium held by the Development Committee of the Sudan Socialist Union recommended countries receiving Sudanese manpower pay for training facilities in Sudan.
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