« Brain drain » vs. « Brain gain » ? Division internationale des connaissances et promesses de co-développement

Diani, Morad and Ghiffi, Noufel (2012): « Brain drain » vs. « Brain gain » ? Division internationale des connaissances et promesses de co-développement.

Abstract

In the past, the exodus of skills from the southern to the northern hemisphere was Heraclitean, permanent and irreversible, so it was often likened to a hemorrhage of brains and a bias to development. For a long time reduced to its pejorative connotation, this "brain drain" begins over the last two decades to include new realities of belonging to an international scientific community allowing reconnections and feedbacks. Through a prism of economics of knowledge, we propose in this paper to examine this transformation of the very nature of brain drain, synonymous to a new global economic win-win-win game.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: “Brain drain” vs. “Brain gain”? International division of knowledge and promises of co-development
• Language: French
• Keywords: Brain drain; Brain gain; Triple win game
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F22 - International Migration; F - International Economics > F6 - Economic Impacts of Globalization > F66 - Labor; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility ; Immigrant Workers

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