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The Scholar

Jul 16, 2008
Interview by Talis Saule Archdeacon

Interview with Juris Ekmanis, President of the Latvian Academy of Sciences

Latvia, like the other Baltic countries, is facing a brain drain as the young and gifted are lured away to the West by higher salaries and greater opportunities. The Baltic Times talked to one of the country’s leading scholars on what can be done to solve this problem. What have been the largest contributing factors to the brain drain? First of all, what I would like to say is that large scale changes which have happened in the past 15-20 years in the region rapidly changed the situation, th ...

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