ABSTRACT
When it comes to ending poverty around the globe, the development community and the world's wealthy nations are on a collision course. The social dilemma of the sending countries of the global South is closely but asymmetrically related to the uneven development of welfare states in the global North. The global South generally has a youthful and rapidly increasing population with high fertility levels due mainly to relatively low levels of female education. The global North has low fertility and an aging population that necessitate admission of migrant labor to fill the gaps in the labor market. In response to the economic crisis, the Ghanaian government, following the neoliberal economic prescriptions of the Washington Consensus implemented a series of economic policies known as Structural Adjustment Programs. The choice of Ghana is appropriate because it belongs to the West African subregion where both internal and international migrations are common and have long been a way of life.
