One of the major reasons of backwardness of under-developed countries is the exodus of competent working class from these deprived countries to developed countries. They get education, improve skills, enhance prospects and then leave their native countries in the quest of better options. Lack of opportunities, poor economic infrastructure, fragile law and order situation, political chaos, social inequalities, cultural repression, nepotism and dying patriotism are some of the decisive factors that are responsible for brain-drainage.

But, do we run away when our house is on fire or try to extinguish it? People like Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Mao-Tse-Tung, Nelson Mandela, Mustafa Kamal, Gandhi and Mahatir Mohammad changed the history of their native countries because they opted the second option. Yes, everyone cannot be a great leader like them but at least we can perform our duty in our small area of influence.       

At national level, due to the trend of urbanization the bourgeois of poor countries prefer to live in urban areas which is the major reason of retarded development of rural areas and saturation of developed cities. After the revolution of ‘IT’ and globalization, the rat-race of brain-drainage was rapidly increased. Different web-sites on inter-net are providing updated and more alluring information about jobs all over the world with attractive salary packages and other fringe benefits. In the charisma of material bonanza, better living-standard, healthy atmosphere, hygienic diet, progressive career and secured future, specialists in different fields are migrating from under-developed countries which is seriously hurting the economy of these countries. If governments of such countries provide these facilities to public, there will be noticeable reduction in this trend. While youngsters of mediocre qualification become happily ready to do ordinary jobs in developed countries due to huge gap in currency-rate. In this way developed countries are enjoying the facility of educated labor. The life of such workers becomes a long series of compromises and adjustments. Such expatriates feel sense of alienation and home-sickness which creates an emotional vacuum in their personalities and they become intellectually barren. No doubt, myth of success and moral standards cannot be synthesized but myth is not truth, it only symbolizes the truth. Due to naïve assumption of utopian world, they become nonentities of consumerist societies. Neutrally speaking, it is very difficult for a competent, dexterous and ambitious person to live in a non-competitive society. Especially in modern era, economics is no more a subject; it has become most dominating religion of the world which  is directly dictating our behavior and priorities. It has become more powerful than geographical boundaries, social taboos, family bondage and religious beliefs. And brain-drainage is one of its aftermaths. So, how can we stop it?

It is very difficult to suggest any ideal antidote to this serious predicament. The only long-term solution can be to improve the economic infrastructure of under-developed and developing countries and to enhance patriotism by promoting a slogan that the native country which provides us education and other facilities to convert our raw-material of personality into final product should be at our top priority by serving it first. Ultimately, the whole world will be developed and there will be no concept of G7 (Great Seven of world) rather it will be ‘G-World’ (Great World). I know, this idea sounds very imaginative rather unrealistic but this dream can be converted into reality if we understand that:

                      ‘Mother and Mother-land cannot be changed’