African Brain Drain — Cause or Effect?
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The BBC ran a story in October about a study of the African brain drain. The study, conducted by the Pollution Research Group at Natal University in South Africa, claimed that a third of all skilled professionals in Africa have left that continent to pursue careers in the West. The study put the total cost to African countries of this brain drain at $4 billion. But the study seems to have cause and effect reversed.
Specifically, the report claims that as a result of the brain drain, African economic growth has been hampered and poverty increased. No, sorry, but it’s the other way around. Lack of economic growth and rampant poverty — often caused by political repression and a lack of freedoms — is what motivates African professionals to flee their own countries.
Consider South Africa. In 2001 South AFrica’s Education Minister Kadar Asmal accused Great Britain of unfairly raiding South Africa for teachers, and president Thabo Mbeki himself has called for a reversal of the outflow of scientists and engineers from South Africa to the West. This from a man who has defended pseudoscientific ideas such as the notion that HIV does not cause AIDS, and whose political party has tried to clamp down on criticism from South Africa’s press.
The amazing thing is not that Africa loses about 23,000 qualified academic professionals each year, but rather that even more don’t choose to leave given the sorry state of African governance. When are people like Mbeki and Asmal going to stop blaming others for their predicament and start focusing on righting their own ship?
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Brian drain costs Africa billions. The BBC, October 17, 2001.
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July 4th, 2009 at 5:55 am
date : July 4, 009.
Indian
remember the shastra,
brahma [ god ] said that : -
satoguna, rajoguna, tamogun mai hun
nirgun hai mera nam,
satya sanantan nirankar main hun
bhaktai ke hun pran.
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Janani janma bhumishcha, sorgadapi gariyasi.
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Om sarbe bhabanti sukhin
Sarbe shantu niramaya,
Sarbe bhadrani pashenti
Ma kasy dukha bha bhabet.
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Buddir yashya balam tashya
Nirbuddirshya kuto balam.
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Bidhya dhanam sarba dhanam pradhanam.
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Santosum parmum sukham.
Satyam badha,
Dharmam char.
Sarbatra, aur sab me bhagban birajman hai.kan kan me hai bhagaban.
Atma kabhe nahi marega.atma ajar, amar hai.
Atma parmatma ke he ansa hai.
Man , bachan, karma se hinsa nahi Karen.
Chandal , kutte,… ki hirdaya me bhi bhagaban birajman hain.
Atma, parmatma ko chino.
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date : June 20, 009.
Subject: dharma
Over populated Indian
According to shastra
Try our best to become bal brahmachari and try our best to continue it for whole lives. so that we can attain moksha [ no need to come to the 84 lakhas yonies for birth and death cycles ] after this lives. If we can not become bal brahmachari or not successful to maintain it for the whole lives, even then we can maintain the bramacharya in our married lives with dharmayukta family lives. With dharmayukta family lives = dharmic jeevan we can earn punya [ dharmic assets earn by good deeds ]. Manusya chola [human lives] is uttam [ best ] chola [ lives ] among the 84 lakhas yonies [all types of living beings in earth ]. Bean id=”high_1″ class=”searchterm1″>cause an> of manusya chola [ lives ] we can do dharm , earn punya in our lives.. Bean class=”searchterm1″>cause an> manushya lives is chaitany chola [ we do have higher level of thingkings, so that we can differentiate good and bad, pap and punya,……….. ] but remaining other 84 lakhs yonies [ living being ] are not chaitanya chola [ having higher level of thinking ], so that those remaining 84 lakhas yonies can not do dharm and earn puny as we human being can do dharma and earn punya in our lives. As we are having chaitanya chola we can do dharma, earn punya, so that we can go to the heaven and pass happy lives there till our punya remain as assets . even with our dharmic jeevan [ dharmic lives ] if we can not do that much dharma and earn that much punya to become moksha or go to the heaven , at least we will be able to get dharmic parents [ dharmic parents means those parents who are dharmic pitaji[ father ] and patibrata, punyawati, punyashila ,.. mataji [ mother ] to whom we will be able to get in our next lives. If we get dharmic parents [ born by the above mentioned father and mother’s kokha ] our lives will become pure [ dhanya ], so that we will be able continuously do more dharma, earn more punya in each our successive human lives, by getting the above mentioned dharmic parents in our successive human lives. by getting the above mentioned dharmic parents in our successive human lives we will do more and more dharma and earn more and more punya in our successive human lives. When we continuously do more and more dharma, earn more and more punya in our successive human lives, we will be able to attain the moksha or go to the heaven, according to our punnya asset.
Indian
Remember shastra : – let us avoid kama , krodha, lobha, moha in our lives.
Let us earn dharm , artha, kama , moksha.
Let us remember that in the whole world, whole universe, there are three types of
guna [ characters ], which are satto, rajo and tamo , including we human being.
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Date 19 june 009.
cheater Indian,
remember the ved : – asoto ma sat gamay, tamso ma jotir gamaya, mirtur ma amrit gamaya,…………
you
noisy, quarrelsome, violent, dry, dusty, rusty, semi barren,……… hot, desert,………..loving Indian,
remember shastra : – om dev shanti, antariksha shanti, prithibi shanti, rap shanti, ausadhaya shanti, banspataya shanti,….
Always over populated, always over crowded, always congested,…, due to always giving birth to many many children in each generation, when small pox eradicated , cholera, acute gastro enteritis, bacillary dysenteries, malaria, kalazar [ lesmeniasis ],tuberculosis, rabies, severe pneumonia in children, ……., all together which used to kill millions of human population almost every year in India, other south Asian countries, other Asian countries, in all African countries, in all the south American countries [ in all third world countries ]. As the progress of sciences, technologies, in Europe and America, specially since last about 150 years, the good hearted people of Europe and America were and are helping in education, health sciences, skill development, prevention, treatment,. of above mentioned fatal diseases which were causing millions of death of human population almost every year in India, other south Asian countries, other Asian countries, in all African countries, in all the south American countries [ in all third world countries ] were and are gradually under control. as result there was and is continuously, always un manageable, rapidly increasing the human population, who were and are always lazy, always not creative, nice, polite, not trying to be good, disciplined, educated, well mannered, Nobel, excellent, civilized, rather always prone to become criminals, rowdy, destructive, spoiled, cruel, ill mannered, burdened population [ always criminal mind, lazy bone, hungry mouth, giving birth to many children like dogs ]…… in all third world countries of Asia, Africa, south America, Oceania, in all the tropical islands territories, of the whole world.
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…… date : June 18, 009.
Present world ‘s all human being from third world, second world to
first world, from not developed to highly developed countries, from
laborer class to rich people , from residents of remote areas :
forests living tribal communities to mega cities living urban
population, from illiterate population to highly educated population,
from presidents , prime minister to king, queen , from ordinary
families to royal families,., from the population who
are
living in very hot topical climate to very cold tundra regions, higher
altitude mountainous regions,….., from modern population to extremely primitive cave, forests,. …,Living primitive population OF THILD WORLD COUNTRIES,…………,, each and every action of all above mentioned ever increasing more than 7 billions population of earth, are continuously adding the temperature of earth causing continuously raising the temperature of earth. Not a single activity of above mentioned ever increasing, Present world ‘s all human being [ human population ] of earth is cooling the earth.
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from third world, second world to
first world, from not developed to highly developed countries, from
laborer class to rich people , from residents of remote areas :
forests living tribal communities to mega cities living urban
population, from illiterate population to highly educated population,
from presidents , prime minister to king, queen , from ordinary
families to royal families,., from the population who
are
living in very hot topical climate to very cold tundra regions, higher
altitude mountainous regions, all of them are continuously
addicted to alcohol, luxurious food, lazy lives, luxurious lives,
consumer lives, immoral, corrupted, vulgar, sexy, porn ,lives
.
the trend are ever increasing day by day all over the world, if to
days human being do not try for correction, modification,, for
better, then the human being of whole world will be ruined, destroyed
very soon in future .