Jagdish Bhagwati, on the benefits of emigration of intelligent and skilled workers from India to other nations, as quoted in "Return Passage to India: Emigres Pay Back" by Celia W. Dugger, in The New York Times (29 February 2000)
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The emigres often work as a Trojan horse, lobbying on your behalf. They use external opportunities to succeed prodigiously in different occupations. And they can bring their skills and funds home to assist the country in its economic takeoff.

— Jagdish Bhagwati on Trojan horse

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Jagdish Bhagwati

About Jagdish Bhagwati

Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati (born 26 July 1934) is an India-born, naturalized American economist.