African brain circulation : beyond the drain-gain debate / edited by Rubin Patterson.
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TextSeries: International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 105.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 186 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- Brain drain -- Africa
- Professional employees
- Labor supply -- Africa
- Occupational mobility
- Career Mobility
- Exode des cerveaux -- Afrique
- Professionnels salariés
- Marché du travail -- Afrique
- Mobilité professionnelle
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor
- Brain drain
- Labor supply
- Occupational mobility
- Professional employees
- Africa
- Braindrain
- Migration
- Globalisierung
- Afrika
- Migratie (demografie)
- Brain drain
- Internationalisatie
- Afrika
- Exode des cerveaux -- Afrique
- Intellectuels africains -- À l'étranger
- Mobilité professionnelle -- Afrique
- Afrique -- Émigration et immigration
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- HD8038.A35 A47 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pan-African brain circulation / Cynthia Lucas Hewitt -- Diaspora remittances and the financing of basic social services and infrastructure in francophone Africa south of the Sahara / Fondo Sikod and Gérard Tchouassi -- Globalization, migration, and the challenges of development in Africa / John Akokpari -- On the brain drain of Africans to America : some methodological observations / F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo, Baffour K. Takyi and Jesse R. Mann -- Cyberorganizing United States constituencies for Africa / Jill M. Humphries -- Biodiversity management : a current trace of the African diaspora / Paulo Moreno-Zapata -- Building the new African eco-industrial economy : circulating brains and recycling materials / Rubin Patterson -- Brain drain and its impact on Ethiopia's higher learning institutions : medical establishments and the military academies between 1970s and 2000 / Solomon A. Getahun.
States that an important dilemma concerns citizens who either depart from their homeland to enhance their life chances in a rich society - but possibly contribute to a brain drain for their homeland - or stay home - but possibly contribute to a brain waste since conditions at home do not allow to contribute commensurately with their capability.
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