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He wants such a system to prevent encouraging a brain
drain
by enforcing a commitment to admitting low-skilled and desperate immigrants, not just those who are highly useful to the host country.
They
drain
water supplies, account for almost 70% of global energy use, and generate more than 70% of greenhouse-gas emissions.
Refugee Doctors for Refugee HealthTORONTO – Syrian refugees are often portrayed as an unwelcome
drain
on the communities to which they relocate, especially with regard to health care.
Such data upend the conventional wisdom that migrants are a
drain
on public services.
We need to rethink our city drainage systems, rework our disaster-management institutions, and ensure that monsoon rainwater can
drain
out of our cities in the shortest possible time.
This talent
drain
is likely to be exacerbated as pay regulations impose a one-size-fits-all regime.
Similarly, Angola and Brazil have reversed the brain
drain
and are receiving large flows of immigrants from their former colonial ruler, Portugal.
In other words, FIFA has introduced an institutional rule that allows small countries (in the football sense) to capture some of the benefits of today’s higher-quality game, thereby partly reversing the “leg drain.”
The brain
drain
among Iraq’s educated youth has accelerated in the last ten years, because many of them simply see no future in the country.
This internal and external brain
drain
will impact Russia's economy for decades to come.
According to a 2007 study of Lebanon’s copyright-based industries, conducted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the main challenges facing the country’s software sector – an important part of its economy – include restricted markets, intense competition, a brain
drain
(loss of human capital), inadequate technology policy, a lack of government incentives, and rampant piracy.
If Italy’s president, Sergio Mattarella, succeeds in pushing for a government of national unity, he should put the brain
drain
problem at the top of the political agenda, along with the labor market, the financial sector, and the pension system.
Ideally, Italy should reverse the brain
drain
by adopting the necessary reforms to retain and re-attract its own talent.
Thus, it would be possible to assess the severity of the brain drain, build a bridge with potential employers at home, and involve the most successful émigrés in philanthropic and mentorship projects.
For too long, Italy has ignored its brain
drain.
The Addis meeting also provides a unique opportunity for a deeper analysis of issues related to illicit financial activities – another big
drain
on African treasuries.
If you agree with the many pundits who say stock prices have gone too high, and are much more likely to fall than to rise further, you may be right—but not if macroeconomic risk continues to
drain
from the system.
For Iraq, this is a brain
drain
that will be hard to repair.
That means ending trade deficits that
drain
spending and jobs, and restoring the link between wages and productivity.
This outflow is supposedly a new and damaging “brain drain,” with rich countries actively luring away needed skills from poor countries.
Trapped in Kinshasa, under appalling conditions, the brain will
drain
away in less time than it takes to get to New York.
Sentimental handwringing over the “brain drain,” and foolish attempts at restricting people’s mobility, will not.
I have pondered the expressed uneasiness of Europeans about making money, and speculated that their schooling might
drain
away some playfulness and creativity.
How can we
drain
the public-policy swamp?
No surprise, then, that a brain
drain
has developed.
An older technology features vast strip mines, huge diggers, and trucks carting oily dirt to industrial-scale pressure cookers that
drain
off the bitumen.
To this litany of concerns we can add the fear of borrowers that the massive American deficits would
drain
the supply of global savings, and worries of holders of US dollar reserves, that America may be tempted to inflate away its debt.
How can you go home again if the sea has been sucked down a vast
drain
that opened up beneath it, emptying it who knows where, into a void?
But if the interests of future Americans are not protected, powerful actors today can
drain
resources from the not-yet-born.
So the unemployed ask for more social protection, instead of flexibility, increasing the fiscal
drain
on the economy.
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