quarta-feira, 31 de março de 2010

FUGA DE CÉREBROS


O economista Álvaro dos Santos Pereira, professor no Canadá, escreve sobre o problema da fuga de cérebros de Portugal: aqui. Excerto:

"A recent study by Docquier and Marfouk (2006) has estimated that Portugal is one of the 30 countries in the world most affected by the brain drain of its university-educated workers (more precisely, of all the countries with more than 4 million people). Hence, since the 1990s, Portugal has “exported” about one fifth of its university graduate workers, a rate that puts us at par (in relative terms) with countries such as Afghanistan, Togo, Malawi, and the Dominican Republic."

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