BRAIN DRAINの意味、頭脳流出

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2010.09.30 (Review of 2008.04.17 edition)

Here's a particularly colorful expression describing an unfortunate impact of global mobility that every country hopes to avoid.

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BRAIN DRAIN   頭脳流出

Explanation

  • A brain drain is the loss of highly trained and skilled people from an area as they leave for areas where the opportunities and pay are better.
  • brain drain とは、高度な訓練を受け、高い技術を持つ人材が、ある場所から、条件や賃金がより良いところへ移動してしまうこと、つまり、頭脳流出のことです。

BRAIN DRAIN

examples

  1. (politician)
    We need to work harder to create a more favorable business climate for foreign corporations in order to stop the brain drain.
  2. The economic impacts of the country's brain drain are being felt especially hard in the IT sector.
  3. University professors there can earn a salary that's only about one half the OECD average. It's no wonder their universities are suffering a brain drain.

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