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專題研究報告一

第三篇 厚植國際化趨勢下的國家競爭力

Ⅵ New regional development in East Asia: brain

drain or brain circulation?

Our previous analyses on the overall policy configurations in East Asia
seem to be negative in promoting a balanced development regionally or globally.
However, the mobility modality of these talents is essential to determine whether

brain drain will take place or not. In principle, a healthy brain circulation is
particularly welcome by developing countries (Collins et al, 2014). This implies
that talent from developing countries can have training, education, or even
employment overseas for certain period of time and they can contribute to their

home countries later in a variety of ways including as returnees, cooperative
projects or even sending remittance. It is not realistic here to gauge all the options
and reach a definite answer to this question. However, the basic principle to judge
whether the talent emigration will be harmful to the sending countries is determined

by the dynamic relationship between the pull (high income countries in East Asia)
and push factors (other developing countries in the region). There are varieties
of complicated factors involved. This session will focus on some critical issues
including the talent migration and remittance in this region and the mobility of

student and researchers.

Ⅵ.Ⅰ Talent migration: Bad and Good

If we examine the outflow talent issue, it seems to be very alarming in terms
of the pure figure. Among the emigrants from East Asia and Pacific region in 2011,
up to 38.1 % are tertiary-educated (World Bank, 2016). In other words, more than

one third of emigrants could be deemed as talent. At the same time, looking into
the pure number from this region in 2010/11, people might be surprised at the total

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