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This publication considers a range of issues related to the international mobility of human capital (workers such as scientists, IT experts and entrepreneurs), mainly from a perspective of developing countries. These include: key international trends; the world distribution of science and technology resources; economic aspects of human capital migration; the debate regarding the 'brain drain or brain cycle' of human capital flows; scientific diasporas; entrepreneurial migration; the impact on global inequality and national development; greater knowledge sharing by developing countries.