Three methods of implementing and enhancing reverse brain drain are through governments retaining their students, encouraging students to pursue tertiary studies abroad and promoting them to return, and engaging with the diasporas which will encourage expatriates to remit savings, act as bridges for foreign investment and trade, and facilitate the transfer of skills and knowledge.
[13] In addition, the local government was involved in the enhancement of return migration by cities rewarding the returnees with large bonuses from their home unit.
Previously, India was well known as the country where numerous information technology students left for America for a better education and greater employment opportunities.
The turning point was during the dot-com bubble, when many information technology experts were forced to return to India due to the slump and the loss of jobs in the United States.
Tens of thousands of migrants went to the U.S. for graduate engineering education, and accepted jobs in Silicon Valley rather than return to their home countries, where professional opportunities were limited.
Although there are claims of a shortage as the reason for the H1Bs, the total number of software developers in the US has grown only at around 2% to 4% per year, and many suspect that this brain drain from India to the US is championed[clarification needed] by the US government.
[20] In wake of the September 11 attacks and the financial crisis of 2007–2010, a large number of expatriates forming the Pakistani diaspora throughout North America, and even Europe, began to return to Pakistan.
Many of these returning expatriates tended to have excellent credentials and due to their professional and cultural background were able to easily assimilate and find new job opportunities in the country – contributing to an overall "reverse brain drain" effect.
South Korea's reverse brain drain was different from the social phenomenon because it was based on an organized government effort with various policies and the political support of President Park Chung Hee.
The main features of Korea's Reverse Brain Drain policies were the creation of a conducive domestic environment, and the empowerment of returnees.
[23]: 27 Some of the action taken by the authorities of the Republic of China were the setting up of the National Youth Commission (NYC), a cabinet-level government office, and other organizations to recruit Taiwan's scholars abroad and carry out related programs.
In addition, Taiwan's official policy consists of two sections: One reason behind the increased percentage of college students going abroad and the decline of returnees was due to Taiwan's political status and the severed diplomatic ties with the ROC government in 1979; however, the percentages of college students study abroad slowly started to increase after the political shock settle.
[23]: 35 Besides these reasons,[25] there were other social and cultural reasons that were given by the returning migrants which were: The federal government of Mexico has been implementing public policies, were included in the Program for the Support of Science and Research, which were designed to internationalize the domestic academic market and had the objective to repatriate young Mexican scientists who have obtained a postgraduate degree abroad.
In order to prevent the loss of the experts, Africa has observed the "friends and relatives effect", which identifies professional, societal and personal factors as the three imperatives underlying the decision of African students in the United States to return home.
Initially, it increases the widespread replacement of native-born with foreign born professionals and academics in the areas of greatest intellectual and economic interest to the developed country.