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suffering a long-temi loss of physician services." ^" Dr. Dublin ren- 

 dered a similar judgment. He observed that despite the commitment 

 of many affluent nations to share their resources and technical knowl- 

 edge with the LDCs, the "flow of medical manpower is predominantly 

 from the lesser developed countries to the wealthier ones. This is a 

 reverse form of foreign aid." ""^^ 



Experience During the Fiscal Years 1971 and 1972. — That brain 

 drain continues to work against the declared purposes of foreign aid 

 is evident by selected data presented in Table 36 showing the experi- 

 ence of some LDCs during the fiscal years 1971 and 1972. In the case 

 of India, the United States extended $456.9 million in obligations and 

 loan authorizations for the fiscal ye^^r 1971 ; yet it cost India an esti- 

 mated $105.7 million in educational expenditures to train the pro- 

 fessionals emigrating to the United States; at the same time the 

 United States saved an estimated $241.1 million in educational costs 

 to itself. In the fiscal year 1972, the United States extended $428.5 

 million ; the estimated cost to India for educating its emigrating pro- 

 fessions was $107.4 million ; the estimated educational savings to the 

 United States was $279.0 million. 



In the case of the Philippines, American aid authorizations 

 amounted to $124.7 million in the fiscal year 1971. But the estimated 

 educational cost of $51.4 million to the Philippines for its emigrating 

 professions amounted to nearly one-half the amount of aid authorized. 

 The estimated educational savings to the United States was $141.8, 

 substantially more than the aid extended. Roughly the same propor- 

 tions are apparent in 1972, when the United States extended $111.8 

 million in obligations and loan authorizations; the estimated educa- 

 tional cost to the Philippines for its emigrating professionals 

 amounted to $47.4 million ; the estimated saving in educational costs 

 to the United States was some $124.8 million. 



TABLE 36.— U.S. ECONOMIC AID TO SELECTED LDCS; EDUCATIONAL COSTS TO SENDING NATIONS AND SAVINGS 

 TO UNITED STATES OF tMMIGRANT SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, ENTERING UNITED 

 STATES AS IMMIGRANTS. FISCAL YEARS 1971 AND 1972 



•The term "U.S. economic aid" is intended to mean U.S. obligations and loan authorizations as indicated in AID'S 

 report for 1973. 



Source: The data In this table are drawn from the above tables 25, 29, and 35. 



'•'" Stevens and Vermeulen, op. cit., p. xi. 

 788 Dublin, op. cit., p. 874. 



