Give Us Your Best and Brightest The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART 1:

1. Introduction

2. Absent Human Capital: What Do We Know?

3. The International Competition for Talent

4. Why is Immigration Policy Becoming More Skill Focused?

PART 2:

5. When People Can Leave: The Effect of Prospective Emigration

6. Absent Talent: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?

7. Gone but Not Forgotten? The Role of Diaspora

8. Financial Remittances and Development

PART 3:

9. Better than Before? The Role of Returning Emigrants

10. Policy Options

Appendix A: Emigration Losses in a Model with Specialized Skills

Appendix B: Effects of the Brain Drain on Institutions of Higher Education

Appendix C: Open Economy Effects

References

Index