Human drainage

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Situation where one geographical area takes skills, expertise and resources of another region. This can happen between rural and urban areas, where rural areas are drained by urban areas resulting in Urban Bias. Another form of drainage is where people are drained from Africa and other developing countries to former colonial countries – this results in Northern Bias, a situation where the Global North is developed at the expense of the Global South. The major types of drainage are brain drain when expertise is taken, especially academics; skill drain is when professionals and skilled people are taken; and labour drain is where people providing less skilled manual labour are taken. Forms of non-human drainage include resource drainage and art drainage.

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