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Brain Drain. Chris Stohl 5/18/11 World History Per. 3. What is Brain Drain?. Brain Drain is the Migration of educated people moving out of undeveloped countries to find work. Brain Drain is also referred to as human capital flight .
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Brain Drain Chris Stohl 5/18/11 World History Per. 3
What is Brain Drain? • Brain Drain is the Migration of educated people moving out of undeveloped countries to find work. Brain Drain is also referred to as human capital flight. • Dictionary Definition: a loss of trained professional personnel to another company, nation, etc., that offers greater opportunity. • There is also Brain Gain. Brain Gain is in which many trained and talented individuals seek entrance into a country.
Issue • Skilled Workers are leaving undeveloped countries and moving to more developed countries to find work.
Argument • I believe that if you get your education in one country you should have a set amount of years to work in that country. • The problem is country’s are paying for someone to go to school and they leave to go find a job in another country.
Ideas that support my Argument • If skilled workers are leaving an undeveloped country how is that country going to develop. • How are people in a country going to get a job if people from other countries are leaving their home country to find a job?
Facts • 3% of the World’s Population are immigrants. • 3% of the of 6 billion people is 180 million people. • India loses $2 billion a year because of the emigration of computer experts to the U.S.
Photos This is a call center in India. This is a graph showing that 40% of nursing in the US is foreign.
Graph This is a graph showing how many Indian students are in the USA.
Map Caption: Share of a country’s nationals with a university education who live in an(other) OECD country.
Questions • What id Brain Drain? • What percent of the world are immigrants? • Do you think Brain Drain is wrong? Explain.