Human Capital Flight, or the Luxury of Indifference?

Abstract

This paper is meant to point out the phenomenon of loosing human capital, which became a characteristic aspects of the poor countries, that affects more and more their economy, in the favour of the developed countries. Even if this is a corollary of the globalization process, but the future for the developing countries will be not a good one, because of this exodus of brains; and even this is what our study is meant. The present approach is brought into light by qualitative means of observance, survey and study-case. The results of this research is quite a worrying situation for the donor countries, presenting the huge dimension, together with its economic and social consequences. Our paper could be useful both for the governments of these countries of origin, but also for researchers, academics and students. We hope that the readers will appreciate this attempt of awareness about the gravity of this situation and of its consequences for our country and remaining people here.

Keywords

• international labor migration; brain drain; donor country; migration