Abstract:
The migration of intellectual worker and skilled personnel from the
less developed countries, particularly from the poor countries, to the more
develop or advanced countries termed as Brai
n
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Drain is a global
phenomenon.
However, it hurts more, particularly in the area of science
and technology and in the progress of poor
and developing countries. It is
a very serious matter which such countries must attend to on urgent basis.
The term, "Brain Drain" was coined by the British Royal Society to
describe the outflow of scientists and technicians to the United State and
Canada
in the 1950s and early 1960s (Carrington, 1999). By the 1970s
brain drain came to be associated with the flow of skilled individuals from
the developing world to Western Europe and North America. Brain Drain,
also known as capital flight, simply connotes "
large
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scale emigration of
individuals with technical skills or knowledge"
