The Brain Drain Panic Returns

How can we drain the public policy swamp?

Gasoline costs are a tremendous drain on the American economy, but they're also a drain on individual families and it's kind of terrifying to think about what happens when prices get higher.

Africa's heavy debt burden remains a major drain on its development potential.

Issues relating to gender, information and communication technologies and brain drain will receive priority attention.

See also An Action Plan to Prevent Brain Drain Building Equitable Health Systems in Africa.

The brain drain where all of the most educated and qualified leave and never come back.

Has France benefited from the brain drain from developing countries? , Ministère de la coopération, Paris, 1979.

You're basically opening up the tubes that drain fluid from the middle ears, which have had them reliably full.

Outsourcing to developing countries is also a viable solution for the creation of jobs without causing a brain drain.

There was a drain on the land and population and the economy was being linked to the Israeli economy.

This electrode here, called the gate, controls the flow of current from the source to the drain these two electrodes.

If you include all the drain, it takes more than a hundred pints of water to make a pint of beer.

And even when and if insurance is available, the cost represents a major drain on most small island developing State economies.

The very high cost of maintaining the roads and the vehicles that ply them is a drain on the currently available resources.

Taking note with great concern of the debt burden of many African countries, as debt servicing continues to drain the limited resources for development,

The brain drain which results from the delayed return of a developing nation's foreign educated students has been at the centre of considerable debate.

Are they going to drain the swamp in which terrorists swim by arresting and prosecuting anyone who commits a terrorist act or supports it?

We send down water from the sky in determined measure, and store it up in the earth and We have power to drain it away.

We send down water from the sky in determined measure, and store it up in the earth and We have power to drain it away.

It was also noted that the Global Programme should complement activities in other forums and must neither conflict with them nor drain resources from them.

Together, these policies would benefit Africa both immediately and in the long run. Sentimental handwringing over the brain drain, and foolish attempts at restricting people s mobility, will not.

The brain is not a static concept. Trapped in Kinshasa, under appalling conditions, the brain will drain away in less time than it takes to get to New York.

Then after every episode, I had to go up to the bathtub and swim around the bathtub and look at the drain, because that's all there was to look at.

The closing of sports arenas and facilities and the drain of coaches and athletes from the country have had a negative effect on the development of sports in the country.

IOM was fully engaged in ongoing international efforts to turn the brain drain into a brain gain through the transfer and infusion of knowledge, skills and technology into home countries.

And We send down water from the sky according to (due) measure, and We cause it to soak in the soil and We certainly are able to drain it off (with ease).

And We send down water from the sky according to (due) measure, and We cause it to soak in the soil and We certainly are able to drain it off (with ease).

You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.

You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.

In such cases, the brain drain represented a brain overflow and benefits, such as remittances and a vast array of resources, largely offset losses in terms of investment in education and training.

The brain drain from developing countries that has resulted from the free movement of skilled labour while the movement of unskilled labour remains restricted has led to increased inequality between countries and regions.

They stressed the importance of effective measures to prevent the brain drain of those personnel which has a negative impact on the strategies to develop and improve the human resource of developing countries.

For Iraq, this is a brain drain that will be hard to repair. The country had a total population of 26.8 million, and now nearly 13 of them are displaced many may never return.

But, in any event, emigration restrictions today would violate a human right enshrined in current international treaties. But would immigration restrictions work instead, as proposed by some developed country organizations, which worry about the brain drain ?

An older technology features vast strip mines, huge diggers, and trucks carting oily dirt to industrial scale pressure cookers that drain off the bitumen. A newer technology leaves the surface untouched by pumping steam into the subsoil.

An appropriate infrastructure and suitable working conditions for well trained scientists and engineers is the most important prerequisite for attracting and keeping them in their home country and for turning the brain drain into a brain gain .

Even if fossil fuel powered electricity prices remain constant, Copenhagen s wind turbines become a net drain. If Aurora s forecast proves correct, Copenhagen s wind project would become a massive failure, costing 50 more than the saved electricity is worth.

However, the continued occupation by Israel of the Golan and the resulting drain on Syrian human and financial resources made social development difficult because of the deterioration of economic, humanitarian, and social conditions in the Arab occupied territories.

Policy must also chart a stable long term course, which implies the need to reconsider the paradigm of the past 25 years. That means ending trade deficits that drain spending and jobs, and restoring the link between wages and productivity.

Because the convening of groups of governmental experts was threatening to become a substantial and unnecessary drain on the budget of the Department for Disarmament Affairs such groups should be convened only in response to resolutions of the First Committee.

As Pliny wrote in the first century Not a year passed in which India did not take 50 million sesterces away from Rome. nbsp That trade imbalance implied a continuous drain on gold and silver coin, causing shortages of these metals in Rome.

Fourth, NATO can not only bring important military capabilities to the table, reducing the drain on American forces in a turbulent world it also offers a much more plausible vehicle for serious foreign policy multilateralism than either the EU or the UN.

He also acknowledged the centrality of employment to poverty eradication, the need for sustained investment in long term human resources development, and the adverse impact of the HIV AIDS pandemic and the brain drain on the scarce human resources in the region.

And do you get along? I certainly hope so, because at some point or another on this expedition, one of your teammates is going to have to take a very big needle, and put it in an infected blister, and drain it for you.