Time for Asia to reverse the brain drain

In a recent get-together of all my friends who graduated from Jhenidah Cadet College, it was like a bolt from the blue when we discovered that only 23 out of 48 of us are still living in Bangladesh, while the rest have gone abroad.

It was the same distressing revelation when we found that 69 out of 136 friends who graduated from Dhaka Medical College have committed their services to another nation.

Trained and skilled people constitute a very scarce resource for poor countries. Losing them sets development back in these countries. In fact, many countries, having lost their best brains to the industrial world, have had to import expensive consultants from abroad.