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Africa: Counting the Costs of Brain Drain |
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Monday, February 13, 2012 |
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According to a study published in the British Medical Journal in November 2011, nine sub-Saharan countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe) invested some $2 billion in costs of educating doctors who subsequently emigrated to the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, or Canada.$0
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The receiving countries gained an estimated $4.55 billion from these investments, in savings from medical education that they did not have to finance. The familiar phenomenon of "brain drain," it is clear, should also be seen as a subsidy from developing to developed countries.$0
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This AfricaFocus Bulletin contains excerpts from this new study published in the British Medical Journal, providing quantitative estimates of the losses to nine sub-Saharan African countries (and associated gains to recipient countries) from the emigration of doctors to the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, reaching a cumulative total of at least $2 billion. This raises the question of how to compensate the countries who provided these doctors for their de facto subsidies to the countries receiving these skilled workers.$0
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The full study is available on the British Medical Journal website, at http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7031
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Africa: Counting the Costs of Brain Drain According to a study published in the British Medical Journal in November 2011 nine sub-Saharan countries Ethiopia Kenya Malawi Nigeria South Africa Tanzania Uganda Zambia and Zimbabwe invested some 2 billion in costs of educating doctors who subsequently emigrated to the United States United Kingdom Australia or Canada
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