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Lots of large international cities have sizeable numbers of expats who got educated back home, Singapore, London, Hong Kong, etc. None of the home countries would cry "brain drain" in seriousness.

If they did they'd be wrong to say that. Make it attractive to stay home and on balance people will. Stifle opportunity and people will leave.

And conversely, Europe and north america don't cry, third world, you're off loading your undereducted and you have us foot their education, etc.

People go where they see opportunity. Countries allow immigration of poor if it makes economic sense to them. And of course they welcome highly skilled, for the most part though quotas exist to appease the professionals in host country. The working classes enjoy no such protection, again, because economy.




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