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Refugees and Export Goods as Lost Resources: Developing Strategies to Stop the Brain Drain from African Countries

Erhard Brunn

Consultant for Intercultural Cooperation

Links and Preparatory Material

The discussion will both refer to the Brain Drain caused by African refugees leaving their respective economies and the fatal neglect of agricultural subsistence in African countries in favor of export production.

Brain Drain Research

Call for Action concerning Brain Drain by the Network of African Science Academies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital_flight

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-71249-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

http://www.oefse.at/Downloads/publikationen/WP_Braindrain.pdf

UN information on Food Security in Africa

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