More and more qualified people are moving from poor to rich countries to fill vacancies in specialist areas like engineering, computing and medicine.

Some people believe that by encouraging the movement of such people, rich countries are stealing from poor countries. Others feel that this is only part of the natural movement of workers around the world.

Give your opinion.

The so-called ‘brain drain’ from poor to rich countries is now robbing poorer countries of essential personnel like doctors, nurses, engineers, and the trend is set to continue, if not to get worse.

所谓的“人才流失”正在从穷国流向富国，夺走穷国的医生、护士、工程师等重要人才，而且这种趋势即使没有进一步恶化，也将继续下去。

Some people say this movement of people around the world is not a new phenomenon. Migrant workers have always been attracted by the wider choice of employment and greater opportunity in major cities in their own countries and abroad. Recently, as the technological age has advanced and as richer countries find themselves with not enough workers to feed their development, they have had to run to other parts of the world to find the necessary manpower. Many richer European countries, for example, are now trying to attract skilled IT workers from my home country India by offering higher salaries than they could hope to earn at home. With the globalisation of the world economy, many people feel that the process cannot be stopped.

有些人说，世界各地的人流动并不是一种新现象。在本国和国外的主要城市，更广泛的就业选择和更大的机会一直吸引着移民工人。最近，随着技术时代的进步，随着富裕国家发现自己没有足够的工人来养活自己的发展，他们不得不跑到世界其他地方去寻找必要的劳动力。例如，许多较富裕的欧洲国家现在正试图从我的祖国印度吸引技术熟练的IT工作者，他们提供的薪水比他们在国内可能挣到的薪水要高。随着世界经济的全球化，许多人认为这一进程无法停止。

Others, myself included, are of the opinion that measures should be taken to address the problem, by compensating poorer countries financially for the loss of investment in the people they have trained, like doctors and nurses. Admittedly, this may be cumbersome to administer, but an attempt could be made to get it off the ground. Another step, which in part has already begun to happen, is to use the forces of globalization itself. Western countries could encourage people to stay in their own countries by direct investment in projects like computer factories or by sending patients abroad for treatment, as is already happening.

包括我在内的其他人认为，应该采取措施来解决这一问题，办法是在财政上补偿较贫穷国家在他们训练过的人，如医生和护士方面的投资损失。诚然，管理起来可能很麻烦，但我们可以尝试将其付诸实践。另一个步骤，在某种程度上已经开始发生，就是利用全球化本身的力量。西方国家可以通过直接投资计算机工厂之类的项目，或者把病人送到国外接受治疗，鼓励人们留在自己的国家。

It is obviously difficult to restrict the movement of people around the world and it is probably foolish to try to stop it, but attempts should be made to redress the imbalance.

限制世界各地人民的流动显然是困难的，试图阻止这种流动可能是愚蠢的，但应该设法纠正这种不平衡。

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