Kewalramani: India Must Allow Foreign Universities to Stop Brain Drain
Manoj Kewalramani · China Expert: “India Must Copy This From China To Stay Ahead!” Manoj Kewalramani | Neon Show · Aug 9, 2024 · at 41:07
China expert Manoj Kewalramani argues that India needs factor market and educational liberalization similar to China's model of allowing international university campuses.
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“There is no reason why, again, Shanghai can have an NYU campus and we can't seem to get foreign education into India. We completely, we constantly complain about the fact that India suffers from brain drain. You know, the best and the brightest tend to go out. I don't understand why we, and we constantly struggle with the fact that there is not enough educational capacity in the country, right, to absorb the students. Why can't we be open to foreign capital and foreign technology and foreign education?”
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