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Brain Drain: Causes and Effects

In: Science and Technology in Economic Growth

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  • Amartya Sen

    (University of Delhi)

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When in A.D. 1600 the question was asked in Oxford University’s Arts Seminar: ‘An peregrinatio conducat ad philosophandum?’ (‘Does migration stimulate philosophical thinking?’), the precaution was taken of requiring the students to answer the question in the affirmative.2 The problem of ‘brain drain’ has not been viewed in quite such unequivocal terms in the recent literature on economic development. This is not surprising since a systematic migration of a large part of the skilled and technologically sophisticated labour force from an under-developed country would indeed pose a serious challenge to the economic, technological and scientific development of such a country.

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  • Amartya Sen, 1973. "Brain Drain: Causes and Effects," International Economic Association Series, in: B. R. Williams (ed.), Science and Technology in Economic Growth, chapter 15, pages 385-415, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-01731-7_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01731-7_15
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    1. Hussain, Mushahid, 2013. "Migrants’ Remittances and State Behaviour in the Neoliberal Era," EY International Congress on Economics I (EYC2013), October 24-25, 2013, Ankara, Turkey 227, Ekonomik Yaklasim Association.

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