African brain circulation
Subtitle: beyond the drain-gain debate
By: edited by Rubin Patterson.
Contributors: Patterson, Rubin.
Series: International studies in sociology and social anthropology
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004158856
Subjects: Brain drain -- Africa; Professional employees; Labor supply -- Africa; Occupational mobility
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pan-African brain circulation / Cynthia Lucas Hewitt; title: Diaspora remittances and the financing of basic social services and infrastructure in francophone Africa south of the Sahara / Fondo Sikod and Gerard Tchouassi; title: Globalization, migration, and the challenges of development in Africa / John Akokpari; title: On the brain drain of Africans to America : some methodological observations / F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo, B. K. Takyi and Jesse R. Mann; title: Cyberorganizing United States constituencies for Africa / Jill M. Humphries; title: Biodiversity management : a current trace of the African diaspora / Paulo Moreno-Zapata; title: Building the new African eco-industrial economy : circulating brains and recycling materials / Rubin Patterson; title: Brain drain and its impact on Ethiopia's higher learning institutions : medical establishments and the military / Solomon A. Getahun.