Brain Drain

1. Brain Drain Chris Stohl 5/18/11 World History Per. 3

2. 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.

3. Issue • Skilled Workers are leaving undeveloped countries and moving to more developed countries to find work.

4. 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.

5. 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?

6. 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.

7. Photos This is a call center in India. This is a graph showing that 40% of nursing in the US is foreign.

8. Graph This is a graph showing how many Indian students are in the USA.

9. Map Caption: Share of a country’s nationals with a university education who live in an(other) OECD country.

10. Questions • What id Brain Drain? • What percent of the world are immigrants? • Do you think Brain Drain is wrong? Explain.