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Posted 5 months ago

Doctors with Borders

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/11/doctors-with-borders.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: marginalrevolution/feed (Marginal Revolution)

It’s hard to know what is worse about a new paper in the British Medical Journal, the simplistic economics or the troubling ethics. The paper, The financial cost of doctors emigrating from sub-Saharan Africa, adds up the government-paid cost of educating a health worker in Africa and then multiplies that cost over ~33 years by an investment factor to find the “losses” to the educating country of educating a health worker who emigrates to Canada, the US, the UK, or Australia.