Policymakers in several African countries are on the wrong side of the medical professionals "brain drain" debate

The solution to high-skill emigration ought to be to expand and raise the standards of training medical professionals, not blanket bans on emigration

A number of African countries (see here, here, and here) have recently passed laws or promulgated policies designed to stem the emigration of scarce medical professionals. While the region’s acute shortage of healthcare professionals is a real concern, blanket emigration bans are likely to exacerbate the problem by shrinking the pipeline of future docto…