Gordon Hanson on "Brain Drain" in Developing Countires
The Brain-Drain Panic Returns
01/27/2012
Jagdish Bhagwati,
Project Syndicate
NEW YORK – While developed countries are angst-ridden over mostly illegal immigration by unskilled workers from developing countries, a different set of concerns has surfaced in Africa, in particular, over the legal outflow of skilled, and even more importantly, highly skilled, people to developed countries. This outflow is supposedly a new and damaging "brain drain," with rich countries actively luring away needed skills from poor countries.
Click here to read the full article.
Related Links
Gordon Hanson is director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies and professor of economics at UC San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. Prior to joining UC San Diego in 2001, he was on the economics faculty at the University of Michigan (1998-2001) and at the University of Texas (1992-1998).
Related Stories
The brain-drain panic returns - Stabroek News
