Question

How has human migration (Brain drain) effect the development of third world countries?

Answer in 200+ words.

Answer 1

Brain drain can be described as the process in which a country loses its most educated and talented workers to other countries through migration. This trend is considered a problem, because the most highly skilled and competent individuals leave the country, and contribute their expertise to the economy of other countries.

causes of barin drain can be categorized into push factors and pull factors.push factors are negative characteristics of the home country that form the impetus for intelligent people migrating from Lesser Developed Countries (LDC).Pull factors are the positive characteristics of the developed country from which the migrant would like to benefit. Higher paying jobs and a better quality of life are examples of pull factors.

Effects of Brain Drain on the developing Countries(development of third world countries)

When brain drain is prevalent in a developing country, there may be some negative repercussions that can affect the economy. These effects include but are not limited to

• Loss of tax revenue
• Loss of potential future entrepreneurs
• A shortage of important, skilled workers
• The exodus may lead to loss of confidence in the economy, which will cause persons to desire to leave rather than stay
• Loss of innovative ideas
• Loss of the country's investment in education
• The loss of critical health and education services

if you consider example of developing countries like India According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s dictionary Brain Drain is “the movement of highly skilled and qualified people to a country where they can work in better conditions and earn more money”. Brain-drain can also be named as “human capital flight” because it resembles the case of capital flight, in which mass migration of financial capital is involved. Indian Diaspora is a geographically diversified Diaspora, which is spread in as many as 110 countries. The Government of India estimated that there are 30 million Indian Diaspora spread across the world. The 30 million Indian human resource which is working for the developed countries are highly skilled. We are generating valuable human capital with our valuable money which is collected from the tax payers. But the tragedy is we are sending our skilled human resource for the development of developed countries. India is becoming a major supplier of human capital for the advanced economies. India is sending large numbers of these specialists compared to other important origin countries. Brain drain is the current socio-economic problem of our country. some of the international companies that are being headed by Indian-origin CEOs are Google and Microsoft, the two giants in the market who are shaping in world.  CEO of global network of workspaces where companies and people grow together -- WeWork, MOTOROLA mobility,Adobe, Cognizant.......and so on.

Conclusion : For the balance of power and for the staggered development of the world, it is very important to stop the phenomena of brain-drain. This will help a particular country to use all local skilled citizens for development and proliferation. But to hold these skilled workers at their native places, it is also important to provide them enough work opportunities and living facilities. For this purpose, developed nations should help developing countries with necessary money and resources. So that each and every human of this planet can have good standard of living and each and every nation can introduce itself as a developed nation.