Muhammad Hazim left Malaysia for Coventry and the promise of an accountancy career. Now his home nation wants him back. 

The fast growing southeast Asian country needs him – and thousands like him – as it seeks to address a “brain drain”, or emigration of skilled professionals, that threatens its ability to fulfil its economic and development goals. 

Mr Hazim, 21, is in the first year of an accountancy and finance degree at the University of Warwick. His experience in the UK, he says, has been “nothing less than spectacular – from the chance to volunteer to teach maths to primary school children to acting in a play at Warwick Arts Centre”. He has even improved his survival skills – “I finally had to learn to cook as I missed Malaysian food so much,” he says.

To lure him back, Malaysia is going to great lengths and with good reason. A 2011 World Bank study estimated the Malaysian diaspora had quadrupled in three decades – for every 10 skilled Malaysians, one elects to leave the country – double the world average.....

Questions 

1. According to this article what are the key features that attract people to work in a different country? 

2. What efforts are countries making to reverse the brain drain? 

3. In your view what are the ethical considerations when employing talented people from a third-world country?