The health sector should be regarded as particularly important, since there are obvious unfulfilled needs in a crucial area, and some short-term return policies have obvious potential. Given the massive and increasing significance of migration throughout the PICs, the value of remittances (in economic and social terms) and the skill deficits in small states, it is now urgent that migration be more effectively absorbed into development policy formation and implementation. The study was greatly assisted by a large number of people in and outside government offices and the private sector.