Highly skilled migration from Albania: an assessment of current trends and the ways ahead

This trend has raised considerable concern among policy makers in developing countries, who are wary of having to bear the costs of educating skilled workers, only to loose the most entrepreneurial and talented of these to more developed countries.

As argued by Kapur and McHale (2005), since people endowed with a high level of human capital are essential to institution building and institutional reforms, the loss of these personnel (referred to also as the 'brain drain') could potentially trap developing countries in poverty.