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

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.

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 Panic Returns

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.

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.

How can we drain the public policy swamp?

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.

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

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.

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

Direct delivery of medical help is one of the best options, but it still can be a huge drain on already scarce local resources hospitals, doctors, and nurses. An influx of Western NGOs often bids talent away from nascent businesses that could help the country long after the NGOs reset their priorities and move on.

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.

Another topic was the crisis in Africa's health human resources more health workers were dying than were being trained and recruited, compounded by a massive brain drain of health workers from Africa to industrialized countries, and from poorer African countries to countries like South Africa.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Other sectors or resources Many Parties also reported on their impact assessments on other sectors or resources.

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.

Water resources Almost all reporting Parties provided information on the impacts of climate change on their water resources.

(i) Committee on Water Resources

This talent drain is likely to be exacerbated as pay regulations impose a one size fits all regime. Why impose restrictions on a dealmaker who earns a large fee for arranging a merger that imposes no risk on the bank after the transaction has closed?

This approach is not only inhumane, but also economically untenable leaders in these countries should be encouraged to redirect scarce law enforcement, court, and prison resources towards more pressing causes. Simply put, governments can no longer afford to drain precious time and money that could be better spent elsewhere by locking up people for drug related offenses.

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.

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.

(c) Working Group on Shared natural resources

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.

The government needs to encourage conservation, and intervening in the price system namely, through taxes on energy is an efficient way to do it. But, rather than encouraging conservation, Bush has pursued a policy of drain America first, leaving America more dependent on external oil in the future.

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.

Third report on shared natural resources transboundary groundwaters

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.

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.

Mr. Snoussi (Tunisia) noted that the report of the Secretary General on the centrality of employment to poverty eradication (A 60 314) was limited to the national context and had not evoked the migratory and trade related aspects of employment or the brain drain, with its adverse effects on developing countries.

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.