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Brain drain.
When organisations or countries can pay higher salaries to attract talented people from poorer countries, there's a brain drain, a loss of talent.
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** Ajay Agrawal, Devesh Kapur and John McHale, "Brain Drain or Brain Bank?
"We're moving from brain drain to brain gain," Mr. Clinton said.
"It is no longer about brain drain, or even brain gain," Dr. Wang agreed.
They depict a world increasingly divided "into two categories — brain drain and brain gain," as countries with more resources siphon off academic talent from poorer countries.
In 1987 the Communist Party's general secretary, Zhao Ziyang, described China's brain drain as "storing brain power overseas".
"Perhaps instead of talking about brain drain we should talk about brain globalization," Mr. Ghobril said with a mischievous grin.
The brain drain is giving way to brain circulation, and returning émigrés are turning into economic dynamos.
Once, during the convocation ceremony at I.I.T.-Madras, the chief speaker received a standing ovation when he declared, "Brain drain is better than brain in the drain".
The former can be physical (according to some studies, Italy is the only European country experiencing a "brain drain" rather than a "brain exchange") or silent (for example, low voter turnout).
Some of them say they should no longer be seen as proof of the brain drain, but as signs of a brain trust -- a view economists say is still overly optimistic.
The notion of brain drain is ridiculed — instead, it is 'brain circulation.' The notion is that people can return as tourists, that people can be ambassadors for their home countries, that people can serve as business agents".
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