UN General Assembly
1967

89. Inevitably, any discussion of these topics leads us to note the vast difference in scientific and technological progress between the industrialized and the developing nations. Without applied science and technology, even if there were a change in the structure of the terms of trade, there is little that the small countries can do. The paradox in this Is that, just like economic resources, the human resources trained in science and technology are also subject to a process of absorption by the developed countries. We train scientists, engineers and technicians at great cost to ourselves to serve our countries; but since we cannot offer them the advantages which are easily obtained in the great nations, ultimately we lose them to those nations. Then there is the proliferation of committees, commissions, working groups etc. established by the major international agencies and which become a Mecca for specialists from the developing countries. If the work of those who became international civil servants or employees of large corporations were at least of benefit to us, we would have no objection; but It seems to us that at times the developing countries lose first-class people in the field of science and technology who end up as well-paid bureaucrats in the corporations of the highly industrialized countries or In international organizations.