From Brain Drain to Brain Gain (Mauritius): Can We Reverse It?

Briefly, brain drain means the fact that the majority of professionals educated in a country leave one of the more developed countries to pursue better opportunities. These "better" opportunities can be more academic freedom, state-of-the-art research facilities, world-class educational institutions, or better quality of life. According to UNDESA 's report released in October 2013, 41% of Mauritius Higher Education people live in one of the developed countries now.

Brain drain refers to immigrants from workers who are well-trained or fully educated in a particular country. Brain drain can be divided into three forms. The first form is "primary external brain drain", which occurs when highly educated workers leave to work in developed countries. The second form is called "Secondary external brain drain". This occurs when highly educated workers leave their own country and work in other areas of the developing area. The last form is "internal brain drainage", when workers with high-level education are not working in the appropriate region of their own country, or when moving from one department in the country to another department It is a state. In this article we will analyze the cause and effect of the first form of the brain drain which is the main external brain drain.

After analyzing the causes of brain drainage, we analyze the influence of brain drain on the country. Brain drainage can cause many disadvantages to home country. First, brain drainage may weaken the employment structure, which is a major obstacle to industrial development. Because it affects the performance of your country from the perspective of economic growth. Second, the phenomenon of brain drainage is a vicious cycle of underdeveloped development, leading to shortage of home education and skilled workers. Trained skilled workers leaving their country of origin and found better opportunities in other countries. Third, the gap between the rich and the poor is expanding. Fourth, they spend a lot of money to educate people for study abroad rather than return home and people will waste money in the country of origin as they work in the host country. Sixth, brain drain has caused a great loss to human capital.

n Brain drainage - In response to Canada's debate on whether a large number of skilled workers leave the country - or, conversely, "interests of the brains", Techopia Live formed an Ottawa expert team and expressed their views and best We shared practices. Maintain scientific and technical talent. Resolving this problem is Jean Michel Lemieux, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Shopify, Executive Director of Kanata North Business Association, Jamie Petten, and Ottawa Henry Akanko of Hire Immigrants. Participating in Techopia Live as a co-host are Dean Fulford, vice president of personnel consulting at sponsor Stratford Managers. Each team member has a different perspective, but the overall message is clear. Ottawa business leaders need to focus on the potential of future employees, not their technical skills. "Having diverse workforce is not enough, it is about how to manage diverse labor force.