ABSTRACT
The issue of the TMNP is fraught with political sensitivities in both labour sending and recipient countries. Labour receiving countries have faced increasing public opposition to the movement of labour while source countries have experienced a number of both positive and negative social and economic impacts. Nevertheless, the potential economic benefits for facilitating TMNP have been well established. It has been estimated that an increase of industrial countries’ quotas of the inward movement of skilled and unskilled labour equivalent to 3 per cent of their workforce would generate an estimated increase in world welfare of US$150 billion a year ( Winters 2003: 59).
