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is mostly concentrated on developed countries, the intensity of remittances could even
decrease.
I.3.9 Interventions to address brain drain
As economic development is the most effective way to retain and attract skilled labour,
sending countries’ policies to promote development are the best tools to achieve the
objective. This can be combined with a number of migration specific policies for the
receiving countries. Another strategy is to raise the domestic supply of health
professionals. This would require to increase the capacity of faculties and schools, and to
increase the number of training facilities as well as the specialist training slots.
Destination countries could also work with source countries to establish mechanisms
(based on positive incentives) to promote return migration. This return can be permanent
or temporary. Promote the portability of educational achievements. For some reasons, the
skilled immigrants cannot use their human capital properly. There might be problems
with the recognition of the university diploma. This might also lead to occupy unskilled
works. That is why is crucial to harmonize the educational systems. One proposal is to
improve medical structure and thus making working in the health sector in developing
countries more appealing. This can be done through foreign health assistance which is
development aid targeted towards medical facilities. Moullan (2009) says that this works
countries with lower levels of corruption.
Conclusion
This chapter placed emphasis on the migration flows and stocks in different countries of
Europe. It also discussed the migration flows originating in MENA countries.
Different outcomes appear to be attained at this stage of this literature survey. They
include the potential needs of EU of medical doctors besides the series of legal and
professional constraints placed by EU and by countries. Besides that, the role of medical
education in addition to the openness of trade in education and health services seems to
provide promising avenues for the creation of new collaborative frameworks that may
generate further win-win health proposals.
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