In the case of Laos, it appears to be two brain drain phenomena. one is  inside country brain drain from the public sector to private sector or  to international agencies. the other  is  those government scholarship students who have completed/graduated but dont want to return and work in Laos.

For the former, the government should provide sufficient incentives and career development opportunities to civil servants based on the work performance and qualification rather than nepotism.

For the latter, the government should strickly enforce the regulation or plegde /agreement made by individual scholarship students. They must pay back the amount of scholarship.

However, some may argue that it is beneficial for new graduates to gain working experience in foreign countries or gain some money before returning home. Other may say that is a kind of selfish attitude because the country is lacking of qualified human resource to develop the nation that's why scholarship is provided.

what do you think????

Well, the problem of brain drain is not happen only in Laos, but all over the world.

Migration is a global phenomenon

About 3% of the world’s populations are migrants, which translates into 175 million people living outside their country of origin. For example, foreign-born nationals account for 10% of the total population in the United States and 5% in Europe. If all migrants lived in the same place, it would be world’s fifth largest country. Still, this number neither reflects people who have undocumented status, nor cross-border workers.

Migration has increased since the 1800s

The period between 1870 and the First World War witnessed massive legal migration. More than 50 million Europeans left Europe for the United States, Canada, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. In addition, some 50 to 60 million poor Asian immigrants migrated to the West Indies, Africa and elsewhere. International migration slowed down between 1965-1975 (increased only by 1.16% annually) relative to the world population increase. Yet in the last 15 years, the percentage has been increasing rapidly. In 1985-1990, the annual rate of growth of the population of migrants was 2.6%, more than twice of the level recorded in 1960s. According to IOM’s World Migration (2003) report, the total number of migrants in 2050 is estimated at 2.6% of the world’s population.Most migrants have their home and host country in either Asia or Europe

Europe and Asia have not only sent, but also received the highest share of world migrants: 33% and 28%, respectively. The third main destination area is North America, which attracts almost 23% of all migrants worldwide.