Not only has this helped to push as many as 2m Iranians into dependence on the cheap drugs that pour in from neighbouring Afghanistan, and to perpetuate a crippling drain of talent through emigration.
Unemployment has tripled; emigration of talent has resumed.
Defenders say this is a traditional way for patients to express gratitude to doctors, augmenting their meagre €300 ($400) monthly salaries, and preventing the emigration that is draining talent from Hungarian healthcare.
Emigration had not dampened his taste, or his talent, for being a representative figure.
Nazi persecution of the Jews in the immediate prewar years and the impact of the war itself caused a wave of emigration, from Germany and Austria in particular, which brought fresh publishing talent to both Britain and the United States as well as to other countries, including Australia.
Yet, often, the emigration was a condition for the full emergence of their talent.
Emigration to the United States, both legal and illegal, has increased, draining the country of talent.
With the corrupt "old fathers" refusing to get out of the way, and with all the old channels to success — emigration, foreign study, state employment, family connections — blocked, the new hero is a young trickster with a talent for self-promotion.
The prospect of emigration prompts locals to study hard and learn useful skills; many then stay behind and enrich the domestic talent pool instead.
Emigration, love, and homesickness.
