Thoughts on World Bank research project on Migration Patterns of Ghana’s Best and Brightest
Earlier today, I received this email from one of my favorite people, Paa. He mentioned a study that the World Bank conducted about Ghanaian student migration abroad. I thought his thoughts were super and felt you all should know. Hence, we feature our first guest blog entry and who else to choose from than my favoritest buddy? Here's what Paa had to say. I find the results to be unrevealing since it merely concludes that Ghana doesn't lose much from having a large portion of its 'brightest' formally-trained bɔgas spend their productive years abroad. Note that the survey only asked 238 people for their opinions so take care in extrapolating the results. The data points themselves are more interesting: - 47% of all Ghana university grads live abroad. - there are nearly 3 times as many Ghanaians living in the US than the UK (the 2nd top destination) - on average each bɔga makes about $74k every year - on average each bɔga sends about $5k to Ghana every year - the value of ...