ABSTRACT
The thrust of this work is the evaluation of the expropriation of Nigeria’s vital human
resources through the brain drain and its implications for its overall development. Nigeria has
been adjudged a top emigration country on account of the continuous efflux of its human
resources to all parts of the world. Despite the lack of agreement about the exact migrant
stock of Nigerians in the diaspora, Nigeria is listed among the top remittance receiving
countries in the world. The implication of brain drain to Nigeria is that it serves as a feederzone
for the human resource needs of other countries, especially developed countries.
Undoubtedly, the erosion of Nigeria’s human resources has had far-reaching negative effects
on its development trajectory as the vital highly-skilled personnel needed for national
development are lost. This study delineates certain specific development sectors of the
Nigerian economy, such as the health, domestic investment, and technology acquisition and
transfer, as the fulcrum of its investigation. It sets as its objectives the task of interrogating
the effect of the brain drain on the efficiency Nigeria’s healthcare delivery system; how the
domestic investment incentives have boosted diaspora-led investment in the Nigerian
economy, and whether the tighter regulation of the global regime of intellectual property
rights are amenable to brain gain that can facilitate technology transfer. Using a combination
of public choice and modern world system theories synthesised from the political economy
theoretical framework, we generated relevant data through secondary sources and analysed
them in the tradition of qualitative descriptive methodology using one-group time series
research design. The study finds that the depletion of the stock of Nigeria’s health
professionals through the brain drain leads to inefficient healthcare delivery. This depletion is
sustained by lack of political will by successive Nigerian governments to eliminate the
conditions that conduce to the emigration of its highly-skilled health manpower and the
relaxation of immigration policies by Western countries. Nigeria’s domestic investment
profile has been boosted through diaspora-led investments in the Nigerian economy. The
tighter regulation of the global regime of intellectual property rights is inhibitive of diasporaled
industrial investments towards technology transfer. The challenge of diaspora integration
in Nigerian development is locatable in the absence of coordinated domestic efforts in that direction.
NWOZOR, A (2021). Brain Drain And National Development In Nigeria. Afribary. Retrieved from https://track.afribary.com/works/brain-drain-and-national-development-in-nigeria
NWOZOR, AGAPTUS "Brain Drain And National Development In Nigeria" Afribary. Afribary, 20 May. 2021, https://track.afribary.com/works/brain-drain-and-national-development-in-nigeria. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.
NWOZOR, AGAPTUS . "Brain Drain And National Development In Nigeria". Afribary, Afribary, 20 May. 2021. Web. 27 Nov. 2024. < https://track.afribary.com/works/brain-drain-and-national-development-in-nigeria >.
NWOZOR, AGAPTUS . "Brain Drain And National Development In Nigeria" Afribary (2021). Accessed November 27, 2024. https://track.afribary.com/works/brain-drain-and-national-development-in-nigeria