Economics
BRAIN DRAIN
Brain drain is also known as “The human capital flight”. It can be simply defined as the mass emigration of technically skilled people from one country to another country. Brain-drain can have many reasons, for example-political instability of a nation, lack of opportunities, health risks, personal conflicts etc. Brain-drain can also be named as “human capital flight” because it resembles the case of capital flight, in which mass migration of financial capital is involved.
Causes of Brain Drain
Normally causes of outflow of talented emigrants for developed market economies are covered in general by means of push-pull model .Push and pull factors regarding brain drain appear to be rooted in the unequal economic development of the emigration and immigration countries.
Push Factors
Agha Khan Medical University conducted study about the brain drain of
(doctors) from Pakistan. As per research 95% of the students of AKU and 65% students of BU want to emigrate due to poor salary in Pakistan along with poor quality of training and work environment.
Syed Jafar Askari viewed terrorism and economic crises are the main factors which forced the highly qualified and brilliant people to leave the country.21
Raheem stated the following reasons for moving abroad:
For better jobs.
Lack of opportunities offered to the highly skilled labour.
Unemployment ratio among qualified workers is very high and salary levels for skilled workers are often kept low by governments to maintain an egalitarian income policy.
Lack of respect of the professionals and usually qualified people are answerable to the bosses that have no knowledge about their respective fields.22
Mohsin Ali comments on reasons of brain drain as:
(i) Economic reasons
Job satisfaction.
Academically progressive environment.
Better pay and service condition.
(ii) Lack of financial and academic reasons
Better life and higher education.
Lack of institutions for research along with doctorate and post
Brain drain is also known as “The human capital flight”. It can be simply defined as the mass emigration of technically skilled people from one country to another country. Brain-drain can have many reasons, for example-political instability of a nation, lack of opportunities, health risks, personal conflicts etc. Brain-drain can also be named as “human capital flight” because it resembles the case of capital flight, in which mass migration of financial capital is involved.
Causes of Brain Drain
Normally causes of outflow of talented emigrants for developed market economies are covered in general by means of push-pull model .Push and pull factors regarding brain drain appear to be rooted in the unequal economic development of the emigration and immigration countries.
Push Factors
Agha Khan Medical University conducted study about the brain drain of
(doctors) from Pakistan. As per research 95% of the students of AKU and 65% students of BU want to emigrate due to poor salary in Pakistan along with poor quality of training and work environment.
Syed Jafar Askari viewed terrorism and economic crises are the main factors which forced the highly qualified and brilliant people to leave the country.21
Raheem stated the following reasons for moving abroad:
For better jobs.
Lack of opportunities offered to the highly skilled labour.
Unemployment ratio among qualified workers is very high and salary levels for skilled workers are often kept low by governments to maintain an egalitarian income policy.
Lack of respect of the professionals and usually qualified people are answerable to the bosses that have no knowledge about their respective fields.22
Mohsin Ali comments on reasons of brain drain as:
(i) Economic reasons
Job satisfaction.
Academically progressive environment.
Better pay and service condition.
(ii) Lack of financial and academic reasons
Better life and higher education.
Lack of institutions for research along with doctorate and post