EFFECTS OF HUMAN CAPITAL FLIGHT ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA, 2015-2023
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Nigeria as a country has been grappling with challenges of economic development. These economic development problems include low standard of living, low rates of literacy, unemployment and poverty. However, the effect of flight of human capital on economic development has been a discourse of polemics. The study employed ex post facto employing document evidence and analysed using thematic approach. Human capital flight is a plague in Nigeria’s economy. Its adverse effects on economic development is felt in two critical sectors-health and education. In scale of its effects, the medical institution is worst hit along which has invariably affected wellness and life expectancy. The study recommends that federal and state governments should work closely with the industrial unions of these professionals in health, education and other critical sectors to address priority needs and expectations of social welfare and conducive working environment for productivity and development of the economy.
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