The BBC ran a story in October about a study of the African brain drain. The study, conducted by the Pollution Research Group at Natal University in South Africa, claimed that a third of all skilled professionals in Africa have left that continent to pursue careers in the West. The study put the total cost to African countries of this brain drain at $4 billion. But the study seems to have cause and effect reversed.
Specifically, the report claims that as a result of the brain drain, African economic growth has been hampered and poverty increased. No, sorry, but it’s the other way around. Lack of economic growth and rampant poverty — often caused by political repression and a lack of freedoms — is what motivates African professionals to flee their own countries.
Consider South Africa. In 2001 South AFrica’s Education Minister Kadar Asmal accused Great Britain of unfairly raiding South Africa for teachers, and president Thabo Mbeki himself has called for a reversal of the outflow of scientists and engineers from South Africa to the West. This from a man who has defended pseudoscientific ideas such as the notion that HIV does not cause AIDS, and whose political party has tried to clamp down on criticism from South Africa’s press.
The amazing thing is not that Africa loses about 23,000 qualified academic professionals each year, but rather that even more don’t choose to leave given the sorry state of African governance. When are people like Mbeki and Asmal going to stop blaming others for their predicament and start focusing on righting their own ship?
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Brian drain costs Africa billions. The BBC, October 17, 2001.
4/24/2016
extremely arrogant, stubborn, irresponsible, bloody,……………, secretary of forest ministry which is higher authority, expert of forest ministry of Nepal Mr. udaya chandra thakur ! go to hell . in recent interaction occasion with social medias, journalists you vomited poisonous words that forest fires cause some minor harm for the ecosystem but do not harm forest as a whole. with such evil expression by authority, responsible official cause further encouragement to the nepali arsonists to set fire in forests of nepal in each year’s dry and hot season. if i will set fire to your home then you will really feel how horrible ,sorrowful ,disastrous,…….., forest fires is. you are secretary of forest ministry so your education back ground must be from forestry so how much corruption you did when you were posted as DFO [ district forest officer ] ? most of the time you encourage wood smugglers to smuggle the forest products illegally for earning the corrupt money by forest officers like you which caused the continuous destruction of remaining forest of Nepal. you must know that forest fires not only cause destruction of forest pollution of air by smoke, burning of hundreds of thousands of innocent living being like: insects insects, small animals, their eggs, child of surface of land of forests regions, microscopic living organisms of soil,………………, of forest regions.
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People of china ! As iron cuts iron diamond cuts diamond so Please come to Nepal to teach the mainly the Mongolian origin [ except sherpa people ] human population of this criminal country Nepal to teach them lessons about the essentials of disciplines, importance of school, colleges, universities education, continuous education , duties, responsibilities,…, of people to their respective country, mother land, usefulness of forests and harmfulness of man caused forests fires………….., in nepal.Nepal gov ! Numerous so called criminal political parties, parliament, judiciary, ministry of forest, ministry of agriculture, ministry of animal husbandry [ pasu panchhi mantralaya ]department of land protection, Nepal army,Nepal police, Nepal arm force,…, ! Declare the emergency rule to mitigate, control, eradicate, prohibit,.., man caused the massive , severe , uncontrolled, continuous, massive, severe, horrific, …,forest fires . encircle, cordon off, find out, torch out, smoke out,.., all those arsonists then shut at the sites where they are doing continuous arson . drive out, kick out all those human population who were and are living nearby, insides the forest regions of whole country who became grossly atheists never read and write , do not send their children to schools, college, universities, alcohols intake was and is their daily lives and doing agriculture, animal husbandry who were and are doing arson in the national, communities,……………., forests in each year’s very hot and dry season who in this year’s dry and hot season also are intentionally ,continuously doping arson and setting fires in the numerous forests regions of such a tiny always impoverish, mass illiterate, primitive, extremely interior, isolated,.., ? Country Nepal. ………………………………
Mongol origin population particularly ; – tamang, rai, limbu, magar,
chepang, different ethnic groups of bhote ,.do continuously encroach,
infiltrate the remaining forests of nepal, chop off the small plants,
trees, of forests, put on, set fires in forests, during the every year’s
dry season, causing rapid destruction of remaining forests of terai, chure
regions, mahabharat, mid mountainous regions and forests of lekha [ higher
altitude mountainous ] regions of nepal.SincerelyDr.kalyan basnet.