Human Capital Flight: Stratification, Globalization, and the Challenges to Tertiary Education in Africa


 
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English

Author:

Ndulu BJ

Publisher:

World Health Organization

Pages:

43

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This paper discusses human capital outflow from Africa from a developmental perspective. The focus is on the high skill content of African emigration to industrial countries, its impact on development in the region, and the challenges faced by institutions of higher learning to help the region deal with this problem. This paper further takes up the issue of African brain drain in the context of relevant changes taking place globally: globalization, movement towards a knowledge-based economy, and global demographic trends. [adapted from author]

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