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  1. 1.

    The HDI is a summary measure for assessing long-term progress in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life (measured by life expectancy), access to knowledge (measured by the level of education attained) and a decent standard of living (measured by Gross National Income per capita) (UNDP 2013).

  2. 2.

    The GII reflects gender-based inequalities in three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment and economic activity (UNDP 2013).

  3. 3.

    European Commission, Eurostat, http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat (Accessed 16 August 2013).

  4. 4.

    See http://www.uis.unesco.org/EDUCATION/Pages/international-student-flow-viz.aspx (Accessed 16 August 2013).

  5. 5.

    The project was coordinated by the Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and it was implemented in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), the International Migration and Diasporas Studies Project of the Zakir Husain Center for Educational Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and the International Migration Branch of the International Labour Office (ILO). The project ran from January 2011 until March 2013 and it was funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) in Switzerland. The main findings are included in the final research report (CODEV-EPFL, IDSK, JNU and ILO 2013).

  6. 6.

    The research draws on qualitative and quantitative research methods consisting of policy analyses, in-depth interviews with key experts and skilled migrants and two major data sets collected between the years 2011 and 2012 using two complementary survey questionnaires. On the one hand, we examined skilled Indians in four selected European countries, while on the other we studied skilled Indian returnees in six Indian cities. Four sectors were chosen in order to improve the representativeness of the sample: IT; finance and management; biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry; and research and academia.

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Tejada, G., Bhattacharya, U. (2014). Indian Skilled Migration and Development: An Introduction. In: Tejada, G., Bhattacharya, U., Khadria, B., Kuptsch, C. (eds) Indian Skilled Migration and Development. Dynamics of Asian Development. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1810-4_1

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