Actively recruiting exacerbates brain drain

As the Proposition so kindly expressed "Brain drain is [...] an unacceptable form of intellectual colonialism". This is so Because of the nefarious consequences it has on both the drained countries and the host countries. In the poorer nations it has the effect of undermining the international aid efforts and making development unsustainable. In Africa the fight against AIDS and other diseases is crippled by the lack of doctors and nurses who have left the countries. It also makes development unsustainable, as the countries are constantly having to train people to satisfy the basic needs of the population and can't take the next step and develop their own research and development facilities (Finding and producing cures and vaccines). On top of this, brain drain undermines the aid efforts by developed nations, since training programs for doctors and nurses have no lasting effect (the recipients leave instead of having a multiplier effect), the investment in hospitals and medicines can't be used to its full extent since there aren't enough people to put them to use. Without a proper and sustained research community (not undermined by brain draining) health-care in developing countries can only attack the short term consequences of illnesses, instead of taking mid to long term efforts on solving these problems from the root. But the largest effect brain drain has is that of a vicious cycle in which citizens doubt the ability of their country to tackle the main problems, and so they leave for greener pastures. But then when professionals start leaving the country the situation gets worse as basic services such as education, health-care and infrastructure are affected by the ensuing lack of personnel. This further undermines the confidence of the people in the future of the country and then crisis comes as there is a lack of entrepreneurs, managers, teachers, nurses, doctors, engineers, technicians, etc. It is comparable to a bank run, where the lack of confidence of the people lead them to withdraw their savings, and thus the collapse of the bank results from a self fulfilled prophecy. When a country loses its intelligentsia, then the social and political situation become starker as the population becomes more and more vulnerable to populism and fundamentalism, having their hopes exploited in pursuit of a solution to their current woes. This further alienates an important sector of the population, which starts looking for ways to make a living abroad, creating migratory pressure on more affluent nations, as is the case with African nationals constantly seeking to immigrate to European countries. The main consequences of exacerbating brain drain for the rich nations would be over-recruiting professionals and migratory pressure. Over recruiting personnel can have analogous effects to those of overfishing: if too many fish are extracted from the swarm, then the reproductive ability of the swarm will be damaged and the fish population will decrease over time, if too many health professionals are recruited then the poorer nation will ultimately start losing professors which will affect the quality and quantity of the health professionals trained in the future, until the amount poorer nation cannot meet its own basic needs nor can it train any more health professionals. At this point the poorer nation is worse off than before, and the rich nation has now lost a provider of medical staff, since they didn't invest in their own people they can't meet these demand and so they are now unable to satisfy their health needs by either imports or local production. On the other hand, the migratory pressure can collapse social services, increase the unemployment rate and create inner social pressures due to the exclusion that immigrants often have to suffer, which can generate instability in rich nations (as witnessed in the French riots of 2005). The plan proposed openly promotes brain draining, for it motivates governments in poor countries to open their doors for doctors to leave, and eliminates the moral incentives of doctors to stay (because they may now think "Hey, the rich country paid for me to leave, I don't owe anything to my country anymore"). All of the problems of the SQ stated above would simply increase in a world where these types of compensations exist. Since both teams agree that Brain Draining is an undesirable feature in present time, we should both reject the plan as an alternative for the future.