Do you think the brain drain is making the rich countries richer and poor countries poorer?

Do you think this brain drain is making the rich countries richer and poor countries poorer?


Qualified people from poor countries move from poor to rich countries in search of a better position, profile, work and money.
Do you think this brain drain is making the rich countries richer and poor countries poorer? What can be done to stop this phenomenon?


“Brain Drain”, burning issue of this decade, is continuously letting our nation down, in the race for pride and power in the world. The hunger for money has taken us far beyond the ability to think wisely and lead a life of honour and prestige. Money has risen above any other thing or emotion in this world.

On a wider spectrum, for a country to be rich, its economy needs to grow, every citizen’s average lifestyle should rise. On this same ground, coming to the stand of our own nation, our brilliance is working for others, their economy is growing above us. What we are marching towards is, to the era of slavery. We Indians have forgotten the pain of slavery and the taste of democracy. We are failing to utilize our valuable resource of manpower. We don’t care to honour our qualified men with appropriate profile and designation. Unemployment to the literate youth is the biggest drawback in our country. Corruption, self-centred management, status consciousness; all these virtues have victimised an enthusiastic and energetic person with high qualification and sophisticated ideas for its implementation. Since he is getting a respectful welcome in terms of designation and salary, our youth chooses to serve other country for their development.

The term Brain Drain is not just restricted to the NRIs and those working abroad, but the Indian citizens who are working with their hands tied up to the MNCs are also equally ditching our country. Brain drain is definitely helping the developed, rich countries, getting richer. Our brains are getting appropriate profile, designation, power, prestige and above all the red hot salary by other rich nations.

The rich developed nations have got enough money, but actually lack the manpower and brains to get their task completed to the utmost perfection on time. They are good paymasters and our brains are ready to sell their resource to get their family a life of luxury that their parents could hardly dream few years back. Indian men’s lifestyle is definitely rising up, as their mind-set has changed now. People want to portray their richness, hiding their original financial status, which is deeply buried in multiple debts in form of EMIs and loans. A middle class citizen in his eagerness to reach a high standard gets poorer and their financial status nearly equals a lower class. Undoubtedly, the rich industrialists, to get richer, are bowing down to the MNCs. Its we, who are paving way to the privatisation.

Who cares of working in a domestic BPO? Parents proudly announce their children to be working in MNCs. They get a lifestyle to project which is actually on loans and EMIs. Their children working for their own countrymen don’t fill their pockets enough. All people want today is a modernised luxurious life, no matter on EMIs or loans. Just as a foolish beetle gets attracted to the light and falls into the burning lamp wick, our youth proceeds with a watery tongue for the high paid jobs, but is unable to taste the food in his hand which is not his own yet.

If we carefully analyse the situation, we will find the root cause for this. We just need to dart it on the Bull’s Eye. We need to use our available resource of manpower. This definitely requires a determined management and governance. The educated youth should be welcomes with adequate job opportunities this requires our government and the industrial sector to change their mind-set to replace machinery power with manpower and reward them with appropriate salary.

Last but not the least, our people too, need to realize the pride of living in our own nation, rather than portraying their false prestige in being an NRI. This has to be inculcated right since childhood, teaching them the value of family and relationship and it’s weightage over the money. Money definitely has a place in life, but it’s not life itself. The original wealth is always the love and affection for the family and nation.

Let’s join hands to prevent ourselves becoming slaves to rich countries. Let the rich be rich, don’t fall down to the pit of poverty, forgetting your real self in the charm of money. Remember, All that glitters is not Gold.
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  • RE: Do you think the brain drain is making the rich countries richer and poor countries poorer? -Saurabh Jajoo (06/20/15)
  • Brain drain as a phenomenon - The process of migration of the skilled manpower from their underdeveloped countries to developed countries with better opportunities and better quality of living standards is call brain drain. Though for poor countries, it is brain drain but for rich and developed countries it is brain accumulation.

    It has always been described from a negative perspective as stated in the title of the essay.though the brain is draining for poor and underdeveloped nations, the above statement is not fully true. There can be 2 aspects of seeing this.
    1. Negative - As given in the statement
    2. Positive - As the diaspora of poor nations makes ways for their indirect development.

    1. Negative - As given in the statement

    Yes, for once this is true that the skilled and talented manpower are being lost by developing/poor nations to developed/rich nations. If we take the very example of our nation and see around us, yes, many of the talented people are leaving our nation to move to US, UK and other developed countries. Even many countries like Switzerland are prospering because of the services rendered by the people of different nations living there.

    Poor countries need this manpower for themselves but because of system inefficiencies and lower growth base, they can not retain the opportunistic manpower. If we look towards the statistics, they tells about economically or intellectually well off people are making most of the percentage of migrated population, as they are easily absorbed by the next nation. They move their because they had worked hard to achieve something and they see no possibility of fulfilment of their dreams in the place they are living.
    This gives rich nations an educated, thinking population and they welcome them with both hands open. This is how they get more richer.
    If doctors, engineers, management people, financial advisers will move to a nation which is already rich, it can only get richer because each of the above have got a skill to earn for themselves and for that nation as well.
    This drain is not just of the manpower but this is the drain of Medical tourism, better infrastructure related projects, better management opportunities and financial advisory from the poor nations, to leave them poor. These same things will make rich countries richer.

    2. Positive - As the diaspora of poor nations makes ways for their indirect development.

    With the above discussed challenges that poor countries faces because of the brain drain, there are many positive outcomes too derived. This outcome took a long time to be displayed. This is "Diaspora" of a poor nation, which is living in a developed nation.
    Remittances from them makes developing country's Forex strong.
    The work they do in foreign countries, helps in making an image of the developing nations. Which helps a lot in tourism and many other aspects.
    If diaspora grows in good strength, this can influence/bend the decisions of the foreign nations in favour of their own country.
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  • RE: Do you think the brain drain is making the rich countries richer and poor countries poorer? -NISHAD A RAJ (10/27/14)
  • Actually said that ,their current problem should be arises for this purpose because of for example ,student having own plans about their career & his more spend the money for the higher education degree so that after the degree they will utilize the degree & hire the large scale job ..currently student focus on the foreign country job & they having study as per requirement I.e. the key skill ,with as currency exchange should be more profit ..In our country to take decision on special job skills & to increase the more employment with the the various project & specified salary ..
  • RE: Do you think the brain drain is making the rich countries richer and poor countries poorer? -K.Govindan (09/07/14)
  • No. Brain drain does not make poor countries poorer, though it may make rich countries richer. Poor countries do not have facilities to utilise the talents of inelligent people and if they do not migrate to rich countries their talents are not useful to the country of origin or the humanity
  • RE: Do you think the brain drain is making the rich countries richer and poor countries poorer? -rishika jalan (04/12/14)

  • “Brain drain” is a phenomenon which is commonly being faced by developing countries throughout the world. It is a process in which developing countries are losing their skilled manpower to other richer and developed nation because of lack of better job opportunities and salary incentives. This has severely affected many poor countries in the world as they are getting poorer because of this, while the richer countries are getting richer and more prosperous. Our country India is also facing the same downfall. People having obtained qualified degrees will definitely want to live a luxurious life and provide all kind of amenities to their family. For this they need high paid jobs so that they can efficiently utilize their degree and fulfill their dreams. If their home country is unable to provide them with good jobs and if they are forced to face unemployment, then they would definitely resort to the other option of going to other developed countries where they are being offered lucrative jobs with very high salary. The government needs to immediately control this situation before it gets out of hand. More attractive jobs should be created for qualified individuals and high salary should be offered to employees so that they stay in their home country and do not migrate to other richer nations. Even the citizens of India should have a sense of nationality towards their country and should utilize their intelligence in the process of upgrading their nation’s economy.