LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES SUFFERING FROM PUNISHING BRAIN DRAINS SAYS UN
August 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD'S poorest countries are suffering from a punishing exodus of their most talented, experienced and educated citizens a UN Conference on Trade and Development reports claims. Around 1 million skilled persons from officially-designated Least Developed Countries (LDCs) lived and worked in developed countries in 2004, a brain drain of 15%, considering the 6.6 million LDC citizens with university-level educations. The UNCTAD paper said: "The world's 50 LDCs are more affected by brain drain than are developing countries in general, where ...
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