MANILA: Whenever a senior Filipino professional leaves to work abroad, alarm bells ring out and panic reigns across the land. “There goes the talent, woe unto us!” people cry out.
The debate about brain drain has been around for decades. In the meantime, millions of other professionals stay, but people panic all the same. It’s like brain drain will gobble us all up like some kind of mysterious blob.
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