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| ZIM: Focus on brain drain | ||
| 2003-07-24 | ||
IRIN - Zimbabwe is experiencing a debilitating flight of professional and skilled people escaping the country's economic crisis, a study funded by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has found. A large number of Zimbabweans had taken up South African citizenship and there were probably more Zimbabweans in South Africa than in the United Kingdom, the country with the highest official tally of expatriate Zimbabweans. The study was undertaken by the Scientific and Industrial Research and Development Centre (SIRDC), under contract from the National Economic and Consultative Forum, to measure the rate and level of the 'brain drain'. It confirmed that the "level and trend of the brain drain in Zimbabwe has reached unacceptable and unsustainable heights". Noting that "during the last four years, this brain drain trend has escalated in magnitude to levels that have serious implications for the country's capacity to deliver on the sustainable development front". Zimbabwe dropped to 145th place out of 175 countries in the Human Development Index (HDI) rankings in 2003.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 Bet if you'd posted the bottom fifty, 40 of them would have been African nations. Too much colonialism, too little real preparation for independence, tribal (vs national) loyalties, graft, corruption, and looting by the government... Africa is not a pretty picture. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-7-24 1:37:31 PM |
| #2 watch - the typical UN response will be to force the escapees back and prevent others from leaving Bob and Grace's fiefdom |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-7-24 11:24:36 AM |
| #1 Here's the top and bottom ten, data is from 2001: World's most developed: 1. Norway 2. Iceland 3. Sweden 4. Australia 5. Netherlands 6. Belgium 7. United States 8. Canada 9. Japan 10. Switzerland World's least developed: 166. Guinea-Bissau 167. Dem. Republic of Congo 168. Central African Republic 169. Ethiopia 170. Mozambique 171. Burundi 172. Mali 173. Bukina Faso 174. Niger 175. Sierra Leone Source: UN Human Development Report 2003 |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-7-24 10:06:15 AM |