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KnowledgeBank paper 21 - Brain Drain by Peter Williams uploaded on Tuesday 29 August 2000 Summary This paper considers the phenomenon of ‘brain drain’ worldwide and with specific reference to Africa, adducing recent evidence on the dimensions of brain drain and the serious challenge it represents for the world community, especially developing countries. It considers the link between education and international mobility of skills, and between international study and subsequent work abroad. It points out that although brain drain is commonly conceived in terms of the migration of skills from less developed to more developed industrialised countries, there is plentiful evidence of skill migration within the so-called Third World and also between industrialised countries. The brain drain debate raises complex issues concerning the obligations of national citizenship in a globalising world, and the balance between individual human rights and social responsibility.
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