Michael
<<< foreign countries need to set up attractive programs to keep or repatriate their best and brightest foreign educated kids. "But how are you gonna keep 'em down on the farm..." >>>
I recall when I was first working in Malaysia in '95, the government recognized this and initiated a program to rectify the situation. They established a program whereby technical professionals we identified who were working overseas. They, the government, established a program where the folks would be paid a minimum of 100,000 Rm or 20% above the local wage scale, whichever was highest. They were specifically looking for teachers, doctors, scientist, engineers and "other" holders of Masters Degrees from foreign universities.
They achieved remarkable results in the first 60 days of the program, One (1) yes, one chemical engineer returned to Malaysia. This program that was "guaranteed" to get ex-pats to return to Malaysia has quietly ceased to exist.
As a user of engineering talent I can tell you that to get two Computer Science engineers to return to Malaysia (their home) I paid 20% above scale of the San Jose area. FWIW, to keep them here I've had to add cost of living allowances recently. And, by-the-by, I originally had 3, one has returned to San Jose where life is easy and there are no gov't hassels.
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