The migration of healthcare workers from Africa depletes countries already suffering from substantial staffing shortages and considerable disease burdens. The recruitment of such individuals by high income countries has been condemned by the World Health Organisation. However, understanding the...

Actuarial research has aimed to tame uncertainty, typically by building on two premises: (a) the malleability of uncertainty to quantification and (b) the separability of quantitative modelling from decision principles. We argue that neither of the two premises holds true. The first ignores...