Haiti exports coffee, mangoes, rum, sisal and cheap manufactured garments . . . but its most significant export is its own people. Every year, it loses thousands of academics, professionals and its most promising young people to emigration. Eighty percent of Haiti’s university graduates leave the country as quickly as they are able---a hemorrhaging of talent and promise that condemns the state to continuing poverty and instability. In August, 2008, I spent eight days investigating this story with co-producer and cameraman Reed Lindsay. This story aired on CBC Newsworld’s “Our World” on Sept. 28,  2008.