Brain Drain Exercise

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A. FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE CORRECT WORDS FROM THE LIST.

brain training - wages brain exchange - highly skilled - brain drain - capital flight - brain gain 1. A lot of developing countries are facing the challenge of human .. . One way to deal with this problem is to provide high and good working conditions for people to keep them in their home country. 2. 3. .. occurs when developed countries receive technically qualified people. .. means preparing highly skilled people needed for the development of a country 4. is large emigration of individuals with technical skills or knowledge, normally due to conflict, lack of opportunity, political instability, or health risks. 5. When the highly skilled people leave a country and replaced by others coming from other countries is called .. B. FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH WORDS YOU HAVE LEARNED Op..means different things to researchers, workers and entrepreneurs. For re......, it means funding. The reasons often cited; along with higher s...; were more resources in terms of research infrastructure and support. Opportunity simply means the availability of jobs that are appealing to them. The best university g. leave the country to take jobs overseas, citing higher w and more opportunities as the reasons for this e. . Brain d.... parallels the term c.. flight which refers to financial capital that is no longer invested in the country. Investment in e.. is lost when a t.. individual leaves the h. country and does not return. However, the Diaspora option or virtual participation emerged in the early1990s as a more realistic strategy to alleviate the consequences of brain drain. It encourages h..-s.... expatriates to contribute their experience to the development of their country without necessarily being physically present.

A. FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE CORRECT WORDS FROM THE LIST. brain training - wages brain exchange - highly skilled - brain drain - capital flight - brain gain 1. A lot of developing countries are facing the challenge of human capital flight. One way to deal with this problem is to provide high wages and good working conditions for highly skilled people to keep them in their home country. 2. 3. 4. Brain gain occurs when developed countries receive technically qualified people. Brain training means preparing highly skilled people needed for the development of a country Brain drain is large emigration of individuals with technical skills or knowledge, normally due to conflict, lack of opportunity, political instability, or health risks. 5. When the highly skilled people leave a country and replaced by others coming from other countries is called brain exchange. B. FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH WORDS YOU HAVE LEARNED Opportunity means different things to researchers, workers and entrepreneurs. For researchers, it means funding. The reasons often cited; along with higher salaries; were more resources in terms of research infrastructure and support. Opportunity simply means the availability of jobs that are appealing to them. The best university graduates leave the country to take jobs overseas, citing higher wages and more opportunities as the reasons for this emigration. Brain drain parallels the term capital flight which refers to financial capital that is no longer invested in the country. Investment in education is lost when a talented individual leaves the home country and does not return. However, the Diaspora option or virtual participation emerged in the early1990s as a more realistic strategy to alleviate the consequences of brain drain. It encourages highly-skilled expatriates to contribute their experience to the development of their country without necessarily being physically present.

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