Introduction

The migration of intellectual manpower from less developed countries to more developed countries is a global phenomenon. The most prominent migration of intellect is from the poor and developing countries to the rich and advanced countries. The recent trend of globalization has been characterized as the flow and exchange of goods, services, capital, and informative services and at high level qualified skilled labour. According to recent study 59 million migrants in OECD countries alone, 20 million are highly skilled. Most of the OECD countries possessing South Asian countries including Pakistan, Srilanka and Bangladesh. Developed countries attracting qualified skilled workers from developing countries in the form of incentives, scholarships from developing countries. Such programmes include H1-B visa programme in the United States, High skilled programme by United Kingdom and Australia, Green Card Scheme for Technology experts in Germany. Pakistan is a developing country which is confronted with the great loss of highly skilled workers to green pastures and for compensating that government offers high incentives in order to retain a critical number of engineers, scientists, and other professional in their countries.

According to recent study 59 million migrants in OECD countries alone, 20 million are highly skilled. Most of the OECD countries possessing South Asian countries including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Research work conducted by South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes identified that the most important cause of immigration of scientists has been identified as a desire to be part of global knowledge.

It is generally argued that this outflow is compensated through remittances and brain circulation. In this regard both skilled and semi-skilled workers are encouraged to seek employment abroad to overcome the unemployment, economic problems etc., although it worked for a short span but if we investigate depth, we can conclude that we are lacking professionals specifically in health and Education fields.

A recent study by World Bank identified that shortage of skilled Workers in a country is the main cause of our poor industrial growth and Development. It is therefore, a matter of great concern to investigate the Causes of migration of qualified persons from Pakistan.