Brain Drain

From straightjacket

• Review the job ads in Cambodia daily (Employer, Funder, Salary, Number, Skills)
• My own case with the interpreters
• Kep and the Casino
• Impact of IMF and world bank on public service wages in Cambodia

References

1. Clemens MA & Pettersson G (2007) New data on African health professionals abroad. Centre for Global Development.
   • "We count as doctors and nurses only those currently employed as doctors and nurses"
     • This misses underemployed health professionals which is a vast number
     • There are also informally trained health workers being pulled-away
     • "All previous databases and this one share limitation that they are based on census or professional society data and thus record each individual’s occupation as the job that the person performs currently. An African trained as a nurse who now works abroad outside the health sector is therefore not counted. But to the extent that the tendency for emigrant health professionals to leave the health sector does not differ markedly by country of origin, even numbers that do not account for this phenomenon still give a good indicator of relative emigration across sending countries."
     • But this may not actually be true as people trained in certain African countries may have a much higher chance of having their credentials accepted in the receiving country. Evidence for this might come from a review of licensing guidelines in the receiving countries.
   • "include only developed countries as receiving destinations" ?
2. Joint Learning Initiative (2004) Human resources for health (PDF)
3. In praise of the brain drain - Nature Editorial March 2007 (PDF)
4. Garrett, L. (2007) The Challenge of Global Health