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Pakistan Is Getting Too Expensive For Its Middle Class – So They’re Leaving

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A record number of Pakistanis are leaving at a rapid speed. Among them are some of the country’s top talent including doctors, engineers, accountants and managers. Over the last three years, one million skilled workers like them have left Pakistan.

On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, host Rebecca Choong Wilkins talks to Bloomberg’s Pakistan Bureau Chief Faseeh Mangi about what’s behind the severe brain drain in one of the world’s most populous nations, where the immigrants are going, and what it means for the country’s already fragile economy that depends on loans from the International Monetary Fund.

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Pakistan’s Top Talent Is Leaving the Country in Record Numbers


Watch, from Bloomberg Originals:
What’s Driving Pakistan’s Middle Class Brain Drain?

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