In fact, it is a success - because you avoided wasting scarce resources on a study destined for failure!
More transparency would help to avoid wasting scarce resources and promote consolidation in parts of the sector.
Care and counselling would be delegated from doctors and nurses to paramedical "community health workers", to avoid wasting scarce skilled manpower.
Some critics suspect that Mr. Mbeki wants to avoid diverting scarce resources toward costly AIDS drugs, an expense so enormous that it might swallow the government's entire budget for drugs.
Details of the Chinese deal with Argentina are still being ironed out, but an official at Argentina's central bank said it would allow Argentina to avoid using scarce dollars for all its international transactions.
This not only allows applications to run on any manufacturers' equipment (as long as it adheres to the standard) but it will also avoid wasting scarce computational resources on set-top boxes trying to execute erroneous applications.
Universal health coverage implementers must explicitly address appropriate use of medicines to realize the health benefits of medicines, avoid wasting scarce resources, and sustain the financial viability of universal health coverage schemes.
This is critical to avoid making (scarcer) government employment even more attractive.
The identification of ecosystems as novel can therefore be useful in avoiding waste of scarce resources in potentially futile attempts to return to the historical reference state.
In spite of the basic necessity to avoid waste of scarce resources in health care institutions, health economic research in Africa is focussed on specific interventions programmes or the entire health care system [15, 16].
Micro-FT-IR analyses did not permit, however, to identify directly the kind of resin or of drying oil employed in a paintintheg, but allows us to address the subsequent analyses in order to optimize the employment of the micro-samples, avoiding losses of scarce and precious materials.
