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
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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-operation and Development (OECD) surged 66 per cent in the decade through 2010-2011 to 2.8 million. More than half of them came from the Philippines, with hundreds of thousands more working in regions outside the OECD such as the Middle East.
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