Idiom
Brain drain.
When organisations or countries can pay higher salaries to attract talented people from poorer countries, there's a brain drain, a loss of talent.
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The C.I.A. put significant effort into its Brain Drain project to get Iran's nuclear scientists to defect.
The C.I.A. has operated a "brain drain" project to lure Iranian nuclear researchers to the West, an effort glimpsed last year when a defecting scientist, Shahram Amiri, suddenly returned to Iran.
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In 1994 the Ministry of Public Health, in response to the internal brain drain, proposed a 10-year project (Collaborative Project to Increase Production of Rural Doctors, CPIRD) to produce 300 doctors annually, specifically for the rural areas.
Projects like Stop the Brain Drain are aimed at changing the norms among students and raising awareness with faculty and administrators that they need to do more to change the recruiting process on campuses.
A brain drain has left it woefully ill-equipped to handle such a project.
Another study participant had already been part of the internal brain drain in her country of origin, as she was working on an international epidemiological research project.
A related problem, as alluded to above, was "internal brain drain" reflected by hiring of national public sector staff to work on internationally funded HIV projects, further draining the necessary coordinating capacity and infrastructure [ 7, 13].
The Action has therefore helped to restrain the worrying brain drain from Eastern Europe and reverse poor participation of scientists from the region in the EU's research projects.
While the project may not decrease the youth unemployment rate immediately, it will certainly contribute towards reducing the brain drain.
Not allowing employees the freedom to spend a portion of their time working on projects outside of normal tasks can stifle innovation--and may even lead to a brain drain.
A huge brain drain.
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