“Brain Drain or Brain Gain” is one of the most con­tro­ver­sial top­ics and I dare not reveal my own opin­ions on that as it fits only for the experts but not for a lay­man like me.

But I could not help to share my thoughts on that. Let me, there­fore, put some effort to write it out.

Brain drain, as we all are aware of, is basi­cally referred to a great deal of emi­grants with abun­dant skills and knowl­edge who move from the source coun­try (orig­i­nal coun­try) to host coun­try (another coun­try where bet­ter oppor­tu­ni­ties can be grabbed).

Brain drain is said to be “bad” as it seems tak­ing some­thing good out of a coun­try.  It is not much sur­pris­ing that most of coun­tries suf­fer­ing brain drain are devel­op­ing coun­tries and least devel­oped coun­tries due to a lot of rea­sons like lack­ing stan­dard infra­struc­ture, poor health care, lag­ging far behind tech­nol­ogy inno­va­tions and advance­ments. Per­sonal pref­er­ence on life style can also be one of the indi­vid­ual reasons.

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