Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The greatest risk today for the West is a reverse brain drain as Asians, especially Chinese and Indians choose to return to their countries, where the future beckons...I see the trend starting here in India, 5 years ago it would have been unthinkable. Cheers Jayanand Mark Langer wrote: >I was just reading an article in The Guardian about how there is a massive >brain drain in Africa, as African PhDs are hired away, leaving few people to >train the next generation, and taking highly skilled people out of various >African economies. It is one thing to talk about competition in the global >economy and how wonderful it is that people from all over the world can come >and study in the United States. But fairness in a global economy >presupposes a level playing field and in a world where universities with >endowments of billions are competing for talent with those with far fewer >financial resources, it is pretty easy to see who the winners and who the >losers are going to be in any global competition. > >Mark > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >