This is an interesting piece on Africa's brain drain. You can read the 
entire document at

http://www.cgdev.org/content/general/detail/9267title=

Malanding


  A New Database of Health Professional Emigration from Africa


Michael A. Clemens and Gunilla Pettersson

08/11/2006

The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to rich countries has 
raised fears of an African medical brain drain. But empirical research 
on the issue has been hampered by lack of data. How many doctors and 
nurses have left Africa? Which countries did they leave? Where have they 
settled? To answer these questions, CGD's Michael Clemens and Gunilla 
Pettersson have compiled a dataset of the cumulative bilateral net flows 
of African-born physicians and nurses to the nine most important 
destination countries. It is the first dataset of bilateral migration 
flows specific to a skilled profession collected systematically for a 
large number of developing countries. Compilation of the dataset is a 
part of CGD's ongoing research on the links between international labor 
mobility and global development. This short note makes the data 
available to the research community.

Download <http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Data/Africa_health_emigration.xls> 
complete data set used in this working paper (Excel)


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