00950nam a22001337a 4500 Ozden, Çaglar Schiff, Maurice International Migration, Remittances and the Brain Drain Washington DC: World Bank, 2006. 292p. International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries, has enormous economic, social, and cultural implications in both origin and destination countries. It is estimated that some 180 million people (3 percent of the world’s population) are living in countries in which they were not born (United Nations 2002). Among these are millions of highly educated people who moved to developed countries from developing countries that already suffer from low levels of human capital and skilled workers Brain Drain http://iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/international_migration,_remittances_and_the_brain_drain.pdf CF 191 191