Globalizing Talent And Human Capital

This publication considers a range of issues related to the international mobility of human capital (workers such as scientists, IT experts and entrepreneurs), mainly from a perspective of developing countries. These include: key international trends, the world distribution of science and technology resources, economic aspects of human capital migration, the debate regarding the brain drain or brain cycle of human capital flows, scientific diasporas, entrepreneurial migration, the impact on global inequality and national development, greater knowledge sharing by developing countries.