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Rate of emerging nations' brain drain surges: ADB

Immigrants with university degrees who left to work in richer OECD nations up 66% in decade through 2010-2011

Published Tue, Jun 6, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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Makati City, Philippines

NYL Patangan, a nursing graduate from the Philippines, left his native land in search of a better life. Now working in a Chicago hospital after a stint in Dubai, he's supporting his parents back home and is buying his mother a Toyota Vios.

A recent study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) shows that the number of immigrants with university degrees who left to work in richer nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-opera…

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