Brain+Drain

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**__Problem:__**
Brain drain is benefitial and also a problem. When the skilled workers leave a 3rd world country, that area is then in need of doctors, nurses, and surgeons. Such countries are without these trained professionals because they leave their country in order to find better work and wages. This is a bigger problem for the 3rd world countries. The counrties are spending the money for good educational programs, but then all of the educated people are leaving for more money. So the countries that pay for the education are losing money and workers. They lose much of their investments this way, when they good be using that money for medical care. The people that leave are only thinking of themselves. They want better wages, bigger homes, they don't even stop to think of the people in their homeland who need their help, and the government who payed for them to be educated. This is a big problem in some countries because, many of the smaller, less industrialized places in Africa have problems with HIV and AIDS. Many of their nurses and doctors are being trained in their homeland, and then moving to places such as America or the Unites Kingdom for higher paying jobs. They stay in their homeland to be trained because the government is paying for it. Then they leave for better wages in bigger countries. This leaves few medically trained people to stay and help deal with these diseases. They shouldn't leave for more money they should stay because they need to take care of their home population, that is rapidly decreasing.


 * __FACTS:__**

African countries lose 20,000 skilled personnel to the developed world every year. Every year there are 20,000 fewer people in Africa to deliver key public services, drive economic growth, and articulate calls for greater democracy and development. After Africa lost 60,000 people between the years of 1985-1990, they lost $1.2 billion dollars on investments.

"There are more nurses from Malawi in Manchester than in Malawi, and more Ethiopian doctors in Chicago than Ethiopia," Kinnock told IPS. Last year Kenya lost 2,998 graduate nurses to other countries -- mostly to the United States and Britain. [|brain drain info for Africa] source: http://www.euforic.org/courier/159e_oyo.htm

Brain drain threatens to hurt Canadian economic prospects and competitiveness. Given a contracting Canadian labour force due to the expected retirement of the baby boomers, productivity growth must increase if our standard of living is not to decrease. Brain drain adversely affects both parts of the GDP equation. First, the size of the labour force is diminished. Second, it is agreed by most that it is the top Canadians being lured away to the U.S. for these greater opportunities and/or higher after-tax incomes. It is these employees that Canadian companies need to provide the productivity and efficiency gains to sustain their long-term competitiveness. And it is these same Canadians that go on to work for companies that compete with our own firms. Therefore, we see that the brain drain often results in missed opportunities, reduced growth, lower employment and reduced overall tax revenue. The Canadian taxpayer should also be concerned about the brain drain problem as it is he or she that subsidizes these graduates’ education, only to see them leave upon graduation for a more attractive opportunity in the US. Here, the US tax system is clearly the winner. Finally, the problem can also be looked at from an ownership point of view. With many Canadian entrepreneurs taking their ideas and businesses to the US, there is a missed opportunity for wealth creation for Canadians. Instead, it is the US venture capitalists and investors, along with the entrepreneur, that benefit from the often meteoric rise in the value of these startup companies. And it is the US economy that further benefits from this increased wealth based on the multiplier effect. [|Brain Drain info for Canada]
 * Why Should We Be Concerned With Brain Drain?**

The harsh reality is that only a handful of countries have been successful in luring their talented emigrés back home. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimates that some 300 000 professionals from the African continent live and work in Europe and North America. By some estimates, up to a third of R&D professionals from the developing world are believed to reside in the OECD area. While there are often media reports of successful Indian entrepreneurs in the United States who establish branches or even firms in India only a small number actually return; in 2000, it was estimated that some 1,500 highly qualified Indians returned from the United States, although more than 30 times that number depart each year. [|Brain drain issues in the goverment]

**__Possible Solutions:__**
One solution is to start rejecting doctors and make them stay in their home land. We also need to think of others, and start sending other doctors from our country to help. Most of the cases in third world countries need medical care. The government should stop spending money on getting people educated, and spend it on their health care.