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Brain Drain and Mobility

Aredo, D. & Zelalem, Y. (1998). Skilled labor migration from developing countries: An assessment of brain drain from Ethiopia. In Senait Seyoum and Alemayehu Seyoum (Eds.), Human resources development in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Economic Association.

Aredo, D. (2000). Human capital flight from Africa: An assesment of brain drain from Ethiopia. In S. Tapsoba, et. al. (Eds.), Brain drain and capacity building in Africa. (pp. 122–145). Dakar, Senegal: ECA/IDRC/IOM.

Brown, Mercy. (2000). "Using the Intellectual Diaspora to Reverse the Brain Drain: Some Useful Examples." In Tapsoba, S. J. M., Kassoum, S. Houenou, P. V., One, B., Sethi, M., and Ngu, J. (Eds.), Brain Drain and Capacity Building in Africa. Joint publication of the Economic Commission for Africa, the International Development Research Centre, and the International Organization for Migration.

Büchner, J. & Hay, D. (1998). Staff induction: establishing mentorship programmes for academic staff development. South African Journal of Higher Education, 12(3), 19–26.

Danso, Kwaku. (1995) "The African Brain Drain: Causes and Policy Prescriptions." Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives, 14:1/2, pp. 249-264.

Das, Man Singh. (1974) "Brain Drain Controversy and African Scholars." Comparative International Development, 9:1, pp. 74-83.

Degefe, Befekadu. (1994). "Retention of Professionals in Africa: Lessons from Ethiopia and Tanzania." In Jeffrey C. Fine, William Lyakurwa and Anne Gordon Drabek (Eds.), Ph.D. Education in Economics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons and Prospects. Nairobi, Kenya: East African Publishers in conjunction with African Economic Research Consortium (AERC).

Dovlo, D. (2004). The brain drain in Africa: An emerging challenge to health professionals education Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 2 (3), 1-18.

Edokat, T. (2000). Effects of brain drain on higher education in Cameroon. In S. Tapsoba, et. al. (Eds.), Brain drain and capacity building in Africa (pp. 174–183). Dakar, Senegal: ECA/IDRC/IOM.

El-Tom, M. E. A. (1980). The role of the educational system in the emigration of high-level manpower. In A. B. Zahalan (Ed.), The Arab brain drain. London: Ithaca Press.

Fadayomi, T. O. (1996). Brain drain and brain gain in Africa: Causes, dimensions, and consequences. In A. Adepoju & T. Hammer (Eds.), International migration in and from Africa: Dimensions, challenges, and prospects. Stockholm: Population, Human Resources and Development in Africa, Centrum for invandringsforskning.

Goma, L. K. H. (1990). The African brain drain: Investment in and utilization of human capital. In A. A. Kwapong & B. Lesser (Eds.), Capacity building and human resource development in Africa. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Lester Pearson Institute for International Development, Dalhousie University.

Houenou, P. (2000). Développement des capacities et exode des compétences: le cas de l'enseignement supérieur en Côte d'lvoire. In S. Tapsoba, et. al. (Eds.), Brain drain and capacity building in Africa (pp. 198–205). Dakar, Senegal: ECA/IDRC/IOM.Houenou, P. V., One, B., Sethi, M., and Ngu, J. (Eds.). (2000). Brain Drain and Capacity Building in Africa. Joint publication of the Economic Commission for Africa, the International Development Research Centre, and the International Organization for Migration.

Ishumi, A. G. M. (1992). Mobility of teachers, researchers, and students: The case of eastern and southern Africa. In UNESCO/BREDA (Ed.), Higher education in Africa: Trends and challenges for the 21st Century (pp. 257–280). Dakar, Senegal: UNESCO Regional Office.

Jackson, W. (2000). Mondialisation, exode des compétences et développement des capacités en Afrique. In S. Tapsoba, et. al. (Eds.), Brain drain and capacity building in Africa (pp. 52–61). Dakar, Senegal: ECA/IDRC/IOM.

Kaboret, Y. (2000). Eviter la fuite des cerveaux en Afrique sub-Saharienne: Role des institutions sous-régionales de formation et de recherche. In S. Tapsoba, et. al. (Eds.), Brain drain and capacity building in Africa (pp. 186–195). Dakar, Senegal: ECA/IDRC/IOM.

Kaplan, D. (1997). Reversing the brain drain: The case for utilizing South Africa's unique intellectual diaspora. Science, Technology and Society, 2(2).

Kouame, A. (2000). Exode des compétences et développement des capacités: Quelques réflexions à partir du cas Camerounais. In S. Tapsoba, et. al. (Eds.), Brain drain and capacity building in Africa (pp. 156–171). Dakar, Senegal: ECA/IDRC/IOM.

Maliyamkono, T. L. (1982). Training and productivity in Eastern Africa: An Eastern African Universities Research Project report on the impact of overseas training on development. Exeter, N.H.: Heinemann.

Mbanefoh, N. (1992). Dimension of drain brain in Nigeria: A case study of some critical high level manpower wastage in the University College Hospital. Ibadan: Nigerian Institute of Social Economic Research (NISER).

McAuliffea, E., & Maclachlan, M. (2005). Turning the ebbing tide: knowledge flows and health in low-income countries. Higher Education Policy, 18 (3), 231-242.

Mintsa, V. (2000). L'Exode des compétence en Afrique. In S. Tapsoba, et. al. (Eds.), Brain drain and capacity building in Africa. (pp. 80–87). Dakar, Senegal: ECA/IDRC/IOM.

Muntemba, S. (1990). The African brain drain: Investment in and utilization of human capital. In A. A. Kwapong & B. Lesser (Eds.), Capacity building and human resource development in Africa. (pp. 103–105). Nova Scotia, Canada: Dalhousie University.

National Universities Commission. (2002). Academic staffing profiles, student enrollment, dropout and graduation rates at Nigerian universities during 1995/96 to 1999/2000 academic years. Unpublished report. Abuja, Nigeria: Department of Academic Planning, National Universities Commission.

Oni, B. (2000). Capacity building effort and brain drain in Nigerian Universities. In S. Tapsoba, et. al. (Eds.), Brain drain and capacity building in Africa (pp. 208–224). Dakar, Senegal: ECA/IDRC/IOM.

Pires, M., Kassimir, R., & Brhane, M. (1999). Investing in return. Rates of return of African Ph.D.'s trained in North America. New York, NY: Social Science Research Council.

Sada, S. (2000). Accumulation de capital humain, exode des compétences: le cas du Sénégal. In S. Tapsoba, et. al. (Eds.), Brain drain and capacity building in Africa (pp. 148–152). Dakar, Senegal: ECA/IDRC/IOM.

Seddoh, K. F. (1989). Foreign student mobility: The case of francophone west Africa. Higher Education Policy, 2(1), 29–31.

Sethi, Meera. (2000). "Return and Reintegration of Qualified African Nationals." In Tapsoba, S. J. M., Kassoum, S. Houenou, P. V., One, B., Sethi, M., and Ngu, J. (Eds.), Brain Drain and Capacity Building in Africa. Joint publication of the Economic Commission for Africa, the International Development Research Centre, and the International Organization for Migration.

Smallwood, A. & Maliyamkono, T. L. (1996). Regional cooperation and mobility in higher education: The implications for human resource development in Sub-Saharan Africa and the relevance of recent initiatives to Europe. In P. Blumenthal, et. al. (Eds.), Academic mobility in a changing world. Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Smyke, Raymond J. (2001). "Brain Drain and African Universities." Transnational Associations, 4/5 (July-October), pp. 229-238.

Sylla, S. (2000). L'experience Guinéenne en matière de renforcement des capacités humaines de développement. In S. Tapsoba, et. al. (Eds.), Brain drain and capacity building in Africa (pp. 110–119). Dakar, Senegal: ECA/IDRC/IOM.

Tapsoba, S. J. M., Kassoum, S. Houenou, P. V., One, B., Sethi, M., and Ngu, J. (Eds.). (2000). Brain Drain and Capacity Building in Africa. Joint publication of the Economic Commission for Africa, the International Development Research Centre, and the International Organization for Migration.

Teferra, D. (2005). Brain Circulation: Unparalleled Opportunities, Underlying Challenges, and Outmoded Presumptions. Journal of Studies in International Education, 9 (3), 229–250.

Teferra, D., & Altbach, P. G. (2004). African higher education: Challenges for the 21st century. Higher Education, 47 (1), 21-50.

Teferra, D. (1997). Brain drain of African scholars and the role of studying in the United States. International Higher Education, 7, 4–6.

Teferra, D. (2000). Revisting the doctrine of human capital mobility in the information age. In S. Tapsoba, et. al. (Eds.), Brain drain and capacity building in Africa. (pp. 64–77). Dakar, Senegal: ECA/IDRC/IOM.

Tefera, S. (1992). Brain drain among academics in two higher education institutions in Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Education, 13(2).

Weiss, T. (1998). Addressing the brain drain. In L. Sachikonye (Ed.), Labour markets and migration policy in Southern Africa. Harare: Sapes Books.

Dissertations

Adwere-Boamah, J. (1970). African intellectuals abroad: Concerns and commitments, A study of prospective elite perceptions and commitments to educational change in Africa. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.

Appiah-Padi, S. K. (1999). Study abroad and global citizenship: Sub-Saharan African students at the University of Alberta. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alberta (Canada).

Gillespie, S. (1999). South-south transfer: A study of Sino-African exchanges. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto (Canada).

Negash, W. (1988). Determinants of non-return within the international student community in the United States. Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University.

Okezie, C. E. (1992). Nigerian students' perceptions of factors that are related to their decision to return or not to return to Nigeria after completion of their graduate studies in the United States. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Slawon, M. (1998). The factors influencing non-return of African graduate students in the United States. The study of reverse transfer of human capital. Ed.D. dissertation, North Carolina State University.

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