Divided diasporas

Michael Clemens, countries and the average cost of medical education in the a researcher at the Center for Global Development in destination countries, the University of Ottawa researchers Washington, DC, for example, suggests that it is time to calculated a savings of at least US$2.7 billion for the United bury the “unpleasant and judgemental” term in favour of a Kingdom, US$846 million for the U [...] Clemens accused the University of Since its inception, the term has embodied a critique of the Ottawa research group of making “back-of-the-envelope” causes of skills migration and the impact on countries of calculations, asserting that aspects of their argument were origin. [...] A Brookings Institute working paper, arguments was that the Ottawa study did not discount the for example, maintains that “contrary to a lot of the worries substantial amounts of money that physicians are known expressed in the media and in aid agencies, the brain drain to remit to their countries of origin — supposedly double is probably a net benefit to the source countries” (Easterly what it co [...] The personal blame and finger pointing embedded in the idea of brain • a strong ethnic group consciousness sustained drain is being replaced by an acknowledgement that, in an over a long period of time and based on a sense of increasingly mobile and globalized world, people with the distinctiveness, a common history and the belief in a means, desire and incentive to move will do so, and trying com [...] One study of the socio-economic impact of as “people of African origin…who are willing to contribute remittances on poverty reduction suggests that the two to the development of the continent and the building of primary motivations for remitting are risk sharing and the [AU].” This seems a rather narrow definition since altruism, and the two main uses of remittances received it precludes any consi