There are some general articles about this phenomenon of this type:

http://old.cacianalyst.org/?q=node/5372

Dear Yuri,

thank you for this reference. But as you mentioned, the articles on CACI are very general and written in a normative manner. Do you know about articles on this subject that are empirically and theoretically better based or someone doing empirical reseach on it.

Dear Manfred,

I am not a specialist in brain drain from Central Asia. But I found academic paper on brain drain in more general sense:

http://www.research.kobe-u.ac.jp/gsics-publication/jics/nakamuro&ogawa_18-1.pdf

You can look at the output of this research institute:

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/topics/brain-drain-brain-gain

Dear Dr. Manfed Sargl you have raised the world wide growing concern that has a very serious impact on economy, health, education, etc in the developing countries.Brain drain is defined as the migration of health personnel in search of the better standard of living and quality of life, higher salaries, access to advanced technology and more stable political conditions in different places worldwide ( Dodani and LaPorte, 2005).Yes you are right dear Dr. Manfed Sargl . The majority of migration is from developing to developed countries.The main drivers of brain drain are:

• Better standards of living and quality of life,
• Higher salaries,
• Access to advanced technology and
• More stable political conditions in the developed countries attract talent from less developed areas.

So, addressing the aforementioned gaps can minimize brain drain from the developing countries.

Although I am not an expert on Central Asia I am aware of South Asia (particularly India) and also South East Asia (e.g. Philippines) where migration does not necessarily lead to brain drain, but to relaxation of labour markets where too many compete for limited jobs. The people who leave do not create a vacuum, a situation where professionals and experts then would be missing. This might happen in small countries where numbers of experts are very tiny. When they leave then often fields are just no more covered (e.g. in the medical sector, when there is no heart specialist, etc). What Central Asia is concerned I have the impression that countries do not necessarily suffer when some of the professional / experts leave....