The struggle toward economic supremacy has been man’s initiative since time immemorial. Globalization in its true context of free market and economy has been wrongly used particularly on developing countries. While a contextual meaning of globalization goes back as far as hundred years, little can be seen especially in Africa. What we are seeing is the increase in gaps, the haves and the have-nots who struggle to level the unparalleled growth an increased inequality
True globalization would be making the powerless powerful and the weaker stronger rather than snatching the few powerful made by professionals into what is now called free labour market. While these countries are struggling to increase their brain gains, globalization is draining the immature, few brains made by these countries. Developing countries have the urge to invest and develop; this has been shown plainly in the increase of education institutions nevertheless economically powerful nations in the name of more pay, good working environments seize and cheat them into jobs below standard. Developing countries are trying to show that they are not poor because they lack natural resources or because nature is cruel to them, but because powerless as they are, they cant battle in the arena of the powerful who are ready empowered by their countries with capital, exposure and will to win the powerless souls.
International communities need to ensure that this trend which is economically crippling the developing nation is put to a stop. The drain should be reversed into a brain gain, or rather brain circulation by allowing a more lucrative, true and fair labour market.
Developing countries need to look deep into the policies that govern payments for the few elites that are produced. If it takes millions to educate them it is worth paying them well rather than wasting their brains and the education costs incurred.
ISWT-essay 2006
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