Unleashing the Forces of the Diaspora: Capitalizing on Brain Drain in the Era of Information and Communication Technologies
- International Relief and Development, 2003.
- 18p
The movement of scholars from one country to another is known by numerous synonyms which are brain drain, brain hemorrhage, and also as brain circulation. The controversy over the concept has been such that some refute concerns over the issue as emotional nationalistic nonsense while others urge for a serious commitment by some developing countries, particularly Africa, to staunch the serious outflow of their trained personnel. While one school of thought treats such movements as an extreme form of institutional nomadism, another views it as a circulation of skilled labor in the emerging interdependent global economy.
