United Nations and Its specialised agencies, efforts to help set up Indigenous scientific and technological potential ties, especially, the research and development Infrastructure• p r a c t I c a I I y fa I I to f I g u r e I n some o f f I c I a I de v e I o pm en t assistance schemes. As a rule. subsidiaries of transnational corporations and enterprises being built In developing countries on a contract basts are not equipped with laboratories. There has been much talk In recent years In academic and business circles about transferring some of the primary processing Indus­tries to developing countries which might help their Industriali­ zation even _though on a limited scale. However, Instead of redeployment, transnational companies, on the contrary, have begun to modernIse the obso I ascent home industries. As was poInted out at the 4th General Conference of UNIDO, "the redeployment of Industries to developing countries was accepted In principle, but In practice no readjustment took place". As a result, everything Is again reduced to the same Import of technology "considered to be the transfer of capital equipment and rarely considered In terms of helping to create an endogenous technological capability" (21). In this pol fey a refusal to give help goes hand In hand with the Infliction of direct damage. A striking case In point Is the practice of luring specialists from developing countries, known as the "brain drain". It literally causes devastation among scientific personnel In the newly-free countries. According to UNCTAO experts, the brain drain has resulted In luring away a tot a I of 500,000 peop I e or 50 to 70 percent of a 1 1 spec I a 1 1 sts trained In the developing countries every year. The losses of 
**Analysis**
The text primarily discusses the challenges and obstacles faced by developing countries in terms of scientific and technological development, particularly in the context of international cooperation and the role of transnational corporations. It highlights the issues of technology transfer, brain drain, and lack of infrastructure, which hinder the development of indigenous scientific and technological capabilities.

**Category**
Industry, Science and Technology