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It's still mostly Tata / Infosys body shops. It's cheap Robotic Process Automation (until UiPath and BluePrism make more inroads). Most of the good programmers from India are in US, or want to be US on H1-B. Heck, even Canadian programmers want to be here! Tech salary in Ontario is peanuts to US companies.

The shift back to India will happen, in my opinion, from:

1. US further declines and they realize the quality of life around family in India is on par or better than US.

2. The immigration rhetoric/pendulum is swinging the other way in US (look at the border with TX/AZ, not up for debate).

3. 1+2 == companies can source the good developers/engineers in India via the work from home paradigm for much less money.

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The West (USA, CA, UK, AUS, NZ) is definitely in decline. Living costs have increased, Salaries aren't responding accordingly and to top it all off living standards have decreased. Typically these countries attract middle, upper middle class immigrants (in this case India). So the incentive is still there to migrate, but it is diminishing by the year. I work with a few and usually its the poor health infrastructure in India that makes them leave. In India, if you are in even a minor accident or have some medical condition that can be easily treated in eg Canada, it is very possible that you can die.

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Partially agreeing with your comment, people leave India/3rd World because of -

1. Conversion USD-INR, check with any of your NRI friend, they must be buying real estate back in India.

2. Ease of doing business, there is so much red tapism and corruption in public departments.

3. Infrastructure, until you're upper middle class you cannot afford Private Hospital bills or secure hospitalization in best Govt. Hospitals like AIIMS.

4. Taxes, India is at par with USA when it comes to taxed its citizen but facility wise you can guess.

Now because of these reasons people are fleeing and considering the current global scenario their next possible destination in Dubai/UAE.

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ever see quality of life improving in India?

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Makes sense.

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