Reverse Brain Drain

Reverse brain drain refers to the movement of human capital in reverse from a more developed country to a less developed country. India is one of the first countries where the phenomenon of reverse brain drain occurred. In past, India was well known for being the country where numerous information technology students left for America for a better education and greater employment opportunities. After the dot-com bubble at the turn of the this century, many information technology experts were forced to return to India due to the slump and the loss of jobs in the United States. Further, the rapidly increasing economic and employment opportunities at home developed interest in non-resident Indians to come back to their roots, adopt a more family oriented lifestyle. Security concerns in the post 9/11 period where Asian Indians were discriminated against because they were often mistaken for Arabs, was another big reason.