India’s educated emigrants are proof of its brain-drain problem

The educated youth unemployment crisis at home and better opportunities abroad are leading to brain drain.

The world’s largest source of immigrants also ranks high in terms of their education levels. And here’s why that’s a problem.

Nearly two-thirds of those migrating out of India seem to be highly educated, having received academic or vocational training. This is the highest for any country, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

This brain drain is a “consequence of an education system designed for ‘selecting’ the best and brightest in an economy that is still too controlled and can’t create opportunities for its best and brightest,” according to economist Shruti Rajagopalan.

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