India, Sept. 21 -- If Deng Xiaoping's reforms made China the factory of the world, the 1991 reforms propelled India as a services superpower. At least three generations of Indians, both companies and people, have used migration to unleash value creation for the world and unlock upward mobility for themselves and their country. As the global economic leader, the US naturally emerged as the largest destination of this migration. The H-1B visa programme that was started at almost the same time as the reforms in India was the principal vehicle of this mutually beneficial migration. India's dominance in the H1-B visa programme is even greater than Chinese dominance in merchandise exports.

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