ABSTRACT
The Biblical prediction that ‘unto every one who hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away’ is perhaps best illustrated by the developed capitalist countries’ efforts to draw away strategic manpower from the poor countries. Brain drain, representing the outflow of underutilised or overutilised skilled manpower from the low developed countries (LDCs) to developed countries (DCs) en masse, and on a regular scale, has received a considerable amount of attention in the literature on economic development of the Third World countries.1 The problem of brain drain has been made a part of the explanation of economic backwardness and reverse transfer of technology.
