Immigration from India: Solution to Global Skills Shortages?

With most western countries suffering from an aging workforce and a lack of skill, there is a global shortage of talent - Immigration of Indians is the current solution. Each year masses of Indians migrate abroad seeking opportunities, whether it is for work or study and many developed countries are actively tapping into this Indian skills market. The reason why Indians are particularly sought after is largely due to the fact that many Indians are skilled, educated and can speak English.

In 2005- 45,000 immigrants came to the United Kingdom from India and about 15 000 received UK citizenship last year. Indians therefore make up the majority of immigrants in the UK. Immigration from Asia, in particular India makes up half of Canada's immigration population and in Australia the number of Indians entering the country went from just 5000 in 2001 to over 13 000 in 2007.

It is clear from these numbers that Indians are flooding abroad, but still these countries and others are looking to improve these numbers through aggressive skills recruitment. Indian immigration has benefits two ways; on the one hand it provides Indians with massive opportunities and on the other, it enables countries to actively compete in the global market. Therefore the numbers of Indians leaving India is set to rise.

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