In effect Fiji is at the bottom of a long global talent food chain. A friend of mine presented a paper on the trade imbalance between Fiji and Australia and New Zealand. She factored in actual trade and then added the cost of the export from Fiji of talent in terms of training, health and other social costs, and then finally the aid budgets coming back from Australia and New Zealand. The trade imbalance was heavily against Fiji. Our society is being leached of its resources.
Migration tends to strike at middle levels of organizations.
You don't see the guys with the 4WD's migrating, you see the next generation going. Each option has it's problems. To poach drives up your wages bill and in a soft market place that doesn't look like improving for sometime, you can't afford it. Rapidly promoting juniors brings with it issues that I will get into. Okay, that's the harsh reality for those of you who haven't gone out to slit your wrists.