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Comment by givemeethekeys

1 month ago

Why 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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gordonhart  1 month ago

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

  • joe_mamba  1 month ago

    > look to send them abroad to prevent domestic unrest

    Great, now other countries can import and share that domestic social unrest from the oversupply of frustrated reproductive age celibate males, all in the name of making GDP number go up. Lovely.

    Surely using hindsight of documented history and well researched human behavior science, we can't already predict this will lead to a rise in political far right extremism, and everyone will be shocked as if it will suddenly come out of nowhere, and then the local males will exclusively be to blame for it, leading to further frustration, radicalisation and disenfranchisement. Surely this is not EXACTLY what's gonna happen.

annodomini2019  1 month ago

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.