The Real Brain Drain

The Real Brain Drain

This Book Analyses The Outflow Of Highly Qualified And Talented Human Capital From Underdeveloped Countries Where It Can Make Significant Contributions To The National Welfare Of Developed Countries, Which Are Already Well Supplied With Trained Personnel. Logical Understanding Of The Brain-Drain Process Is Attempted On The Basis Of Response Settled Abroad. The Estimates Of The Magnitude Of The Brain Drain Are Based On Some Systematic Studies Conducted At Iit, Bombay. This Work Also Distinguishes Between The `Real` And The `Apparent` Brain Drain.

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Brain Drain / Auszug des Geistes / Exode des Cerveaux

In 1967 S. Dedijer and L. Svennigson published their famous bibliography Brain Drain and Brain Gain, (Lund, 1968, index of authors, countries and regions). It contained 415 items from 40 countries and appeared at a time when the debate about the ad vantages and disadvantages of the brain drain was at its most intense. But the brain drain is still not a thing of the past - certain ly not for Europe. The European countries and those of the rest of the world are in different stages of transition. Industrialization has generally been associated, on the one hand with ever more rapid forms of trans portation and other forms of communication, a long-range rise in the per capita income, the exodus from the countryside to the cities and an enormous urbanization process, and the demand for improved social and economic security, on the other. But these characteristics tend to be more relative than absolute. It is not possible to make a distinct division between developed nations, and countries in various stages of development. All countries are constantly undergoing change and are in transition with respect to development. The constant migration of skilled workers and es pecially the search for better training and working conditions on the part of academically trained people is inseparable from this process of transition - i. e. from the phenomenon of long-range. permanent change. Fortunately this is not as deplorable as some observers would make it appear to be.