Brain drain or voting with the feet


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 10 Oct 2021

IN an earlier article Transform brain drain into wisdom gain, EMIR Research presented fundamental dynamics behind the brain drain phenomenon. So let us immerse deeper into the topic and discuss structures essential for breaking out of the vicious cycle of a poor economy, low quality of life and brain drain.

The correlation (and likely reciprocal relationship) between poor economy, quality of life and brain drain are apparent and supported by the global data:

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