Posted on 02/12/2016 9:57:22 AM PST by nickcarraway
Lack of resources and instability main causes of emigration
Arab governments need to create the opportunities for young people to fulfil their aspirations if they are to reverse the brain drain which sees 95 per cent of students who study at universities in the United States and Europe stay overseas.
According to Mohammed Gawdat, Vice President - Business Innovation at Google(X), the Arab brain drain is the result of two major factors: lack of resources and instability in the region.
'It is not about money. It is about taking the right decisions to allow young people to succeed. Once the right decisions have been taken, we can provide the resources,' Gawdat said at the recently-concluded World Government Summit in Dubai.
Participating in the 'Brain Re-Gain' panel discussion, on the second day of the summit, Gawdat said that the brain drain could be positive, as those who emigrate from the Arab world gain skills and experience which could be useful in their home countries.
'Our problem is that we do not attract these people back to the Arab world,' said Gawdat, citing China’s experience in reversing its brain drain. 'Those Chinese who emigrate return after gaining skills and experience overseas. This benefits China’s development. This is not happening in the Arab world. Arab governments need to create the right environment to attract people back.'
Gawdat was joined on the ‘Brain Re-Gain’ panel by Professor Hashim Sarkis, Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, and Dr Fadlo Khuri, President of the American University, Beirut.
Dr Khuri said it was important for Arab governments to engage with young people in the development process. Highlighting the Marshall Plan, put in place by the United States at the end of World War II to rebuild Europe, Dr Khuri said Arab governments need a similar long term plan to involve young people in the development and reconstruction of the Arab world.
'In order to ensure development we need young people to be engaged with society. Unfortunately, Arab governments have not allowed young men and women to have a role in government and the development process,' Dr Khuri said.
Professor Sarkis said that in a globally connected world, there is a need to redefine emigration. It does not need to be a one-way street. 'When it comes to the brain drain it is not always negative. There are positive aspects and Arab governments must take advantage of them by creating opportunities for people to return.'
The World Government Summit convened over 3,000 personalities from 125 countries.
File this story under “No Sh!t, Sherlock”!
Islam and its adherents are a plague of invaders. It’s what they do. They migrated and conquer infidel lands because that’s what they “Corn Anne” commands them to do.
In addition to that, the Middle East is a sh!thole. I wouldn’t want to live there either.
Maybe we could help these Arab countries with their brain drain by actually following through on expired student visas. Just an idea...
Anyone else remember the old old saying:
How are you going to keep them down on the farm, once they have seen gay Parreee(Paris)??????
How eager are these people to return to their sand dunes and repressive cultures, once they have experienced the freedoms of the western world???
It's an admission that their culture and race suck.
If they can't be white, they want to at least live around white people.
That is so beautiful and pristine.
Aren’t Arabs white?
So then we accept them into our country, educate them, and they stay NOT for jihad, but for jobs just as the Democrats say?
Right. Gotcha.
Maybe they can make the worlds largest solar powered glass manufacturing plant? LOL
Al Hijrah
Difficult to get the desire to crawl back into a cesspool.
Drive a monster truck across it and the tracks will be gone in a day or two. Pristine once again.
Who would want to return to their sh*t-holes after living abroad?
I work at a midwest college that is infested with those students and the money (they get $4000 a month after tuition and board is paid) is running out due to the oil glut.
Now what do you think all these Saudi’s in America will do once that money ceases? They aren’t going home, they are already using our welfare and we have a nice invasion force already here!
Work they will NOT be doing.
Won’t be a pretty future.
As long as we're helping them, I say that we send them a bunch of our liberal teachers- you know, the ones that love islam and think it's a religion of peas. They could start up some wymens studies and gay rights courses over in the madrasas. I'm sure that they will be well received. It's a win, win, all the way around.
My daughter had to tutor some of those Saudi “students” while she was in college. She found them to be emotionally arrested at about age nine.
Spoiled, entitled, lazy, unserious, obsessed with partying. Utterly incapable of leading a productive adult life.
THANK YOU! I am glad to hear about that. There are days at work that I hear almost nothing but Arabic in the halls outside my office, they stand around our building everywhere in groups saying who knows what.
There are women in full burka’s walking around especially in the summer.
Half of the courses of our dept are filled with them and the problems with cheating are rampant. They aren’t learning diddly.
Hopefully, that will end if Trump gets in the White House.
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