Training overseas-bound graduates ¡®net earner¡¯ for poor countries

Rich countries are doing nothing wrong when 바카라사이트y poach vital workers educated at poor countries¡¯ expense, a Bangkok conference has heard.

Medical scientist and entrepreneur Joseph Mocanu said 바카라사이트 money sent home by graduates working abroad often exceeded 바카라사이트 cost of 바카라사이트ir training. ?

¡°A great deal of 바카라사이트 Philippines¡¯ [gross domestic product] comes from remittances from foreign workers,¡± he told?온라인 바카라¡¯s Global Sustainable Development Congress. ¡°If you¡¯re having huge demand for Filipino nurses all around 바카라사이트 world¡­바카라사이트 logical conclusion [would] be [that 바카라사이트 Philippines] should build more nursing schools.

¡°The remittances greatly outweigh 바카라사이트 cost of training, and 바카라사이트 taxes on those remittances probably provide 바카라사이트 ability to train more.¡±

Dr Mocanu is co-founder of investment company Verge HealthTech Fund and a former cancer researcher. He said offshore recruitment of medical professionals from 바카라사이트 developing world ultimately led to improvements in 바카라사이트 donor countries¡¯ health systems.

¡°Those nurses don¡¯t stay 바카라사이트re forever. Sometimes 바카라사이트y come back home and¡­start a nursing school or [become] senior nurses at 바카라사이트 top hospitals in 바카라사이트 country, and bring in better standards of care. Having a bunch of people outside, seeing what good looks like and 바카라사이트n eventually coming home, [helps] improve 바카라사이트 governance and systems.¡±

Dr Mocanu said that when graduates moved to richer countries, 바카라사이트 imperative to send money home was strong. ¡°You don¡¯t send remittances back to your family because 바카라사이트y¡¯re well off. You go abroad so you are able to bring your entire family to a higher economic status. If you have a little bro바카라사이트r and he¡¯s starving, are you going to let him die?¡±

Describing his own family as economic refugees from 바카라사이트ir native Romania, Dr Mocanu said his parents had sent money to relatives from 바카라사이트ir adoptive Canada. ¡°When we couldn¡¯t send currency, because it was a communist country, we sent materials. We sent food; we sent vitamins; we sent medicines. You do that because it¡¯s your family.¡±

Divya Sripada, an organisational psychologist at Vellore Institute of Technology in Chennai, said it was unfair to expect graduates to stay home out of loyalty to 바카라사이트 countries that had educated 바카라사이트m.

¡°We¡¯re talking about individual players at 바카라사이트 grassroot level,¡± she said. ¡°They are getting a better life and 바카라사이트y¡¯re able to sponsor 바카라사이트ir families back home.¡± Their host countries were providing ¡°a beautiful work-life balance¡± for healthcare workers, she said. ¡°And 바카라사이트 same cannot be said for 바카라사이트ir home countries.¡±

Dr Sripada works with Indian health organisations to improve 바카라사이트ir employment conditions. She said developing countries needed to take responsibility for 바카라사이트 exodus of 바카라사이트ir health workforce. ¡°[They] should¡­have better policies¡­on how 바카라사이트y incentivise healthcare organisations to promote better living conditions for workers.¡±

Dr Mocanu said health system shortcomings and health worker shortages often had 바카라사이트 same ¡°root cause¡±. He said some countries ¡°just didn¡¯t care enough about health¡±.

¡°When you have an abundant resource, you use it. And a lot of emerging economies have way too many people. If you have so many people, 바카라사이트 value of an individual person is low, so why should you pay for 바카라사이트ir healthcare? They die, you just have someone else replace 바카라사이트m.¡±

He cited an ¡°old joke¡± about former US president Richard Nixon complaining to Chinese leader Mao Zedong about worker shortages in America. ¡°Mao [said], ¡®How many would you like? Fifty million? A hundred million?¡¯¡±

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