"The emerging economies of the BRICs - Brazil, Russia, India and China - will, it
is assumed, lure back home both students who go abroad to study and some
graduates who have settled in the West, because of their dramatic economic
growth and expanding higher education systems. The problem is that data seem to
show this is not the case.
The brain drain, now euphemistically called
the brain exchange, seems to be alive and well.
International Higher
Education published research last August by Dongbin Kim, Charles AS Bankart
and Laura Isdell showing that the large majority of international doctoral
recipients from American universities remain in the United States after
graduation."