alt Hacker NewsWhy is it a top request from India? What does the Indian government get out of letting their kids overpay for education abroad?
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India gets a metric fuckload of money back in remittances every year. Debatable if that's actually worth the brain drain, but then there's also the angle of having your young people learn from the rest of the world and return with new skills. I lean more towards the remittances though.
They get less Indians in their country, while giving their problems to other countries to deal with. Western leaders are insane to think flooding their already resource constrained and overcrowded countries with thousands of 3rd worlders is a good thing for their nation. How are housing, health care, insurance and other public benefit costs now? Would competing against many more people in your territory in the zero-sum conflict for these resources be a good thing for the average European? Of course not. Just like it's not good for the average American or Canadian.
Additionally, diluting the native population's power in democratic politics where ethnic blocks equal more votes and more power, it is doubly bad for the current citizens of Western nations.
1. ~4% of their GDP is from remittances, compared to <1% a few decades ago[0]
2. India has a massive male surplus[1] and they actively look to send them abroad to prevent domestic unrest
[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.TRF.PWKR.DT.GD.ZS?lo...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India