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After all, in a post-economic-crisis world of scarce public and private resources, disaster-relief efforts, one might argue, should target only poorer countries and peoples.
When useful policy objectives compete for scarce administrative resources and political capital, trade liberalization often does not deserve the priority it typically receives in development strategies.
The threat of depleting the world’s scarce energy resources has maintained a powerful hold on popular thinking ever since the oil shocks of the 1970’s.
Based on these patterns, one could predict that most undescribed species have small geographical ranges and are scarce within them – that is why we have not found them yet.
This allows the government to cash out and reinvest the resources in pre-investment and EPC, thus recycling scarce public capital more quickly while cutting out the most expensive and slowest parts of private involvement.
First, we should recognize that even as oil becomes scarce, other fossil fuels such as coal, gas, and unconventional sources such as shale and tar sands, will remain plentiful for centuries.
Metaphorically, military power provides a degree of security that is to political and economic order as oxygen is to breathing: little noticed until it begins to become scarce.
We claim, as Adam Smith did, that impersonal markets ensure the most efficient allocation of scarce capital; but what we really want are markets that operate only on our terms.
Equity is not scarce for viable banks, and the “science” of complex risk weights and stress tests is a harmful illusion.
Competition for scarce resources is sorely testing our assumptions about global governance and cooperation, at a time when collective leadership is becoming ever more necessary.
Leaders’ time is a scarce resource.
Brazilian investors and U.S. banks began to take money out, forcing the Central Bank to sell scarce dollars in order to keep the hallowed stability of the currency.
There is some information about the size and timing of Chinese loans from the financial press and a variety of private and academic sources; but information about loans’ terms and conditions is scarce to nonexistent.
Rather, the Namibians we met understand that you can’t pick your neighbors, so it’s best to work with them by sharing scarce water resources, cooperating on regional health efforts, encouraging investment, and exchanging students.
Given scarce public funds and fiscal constraints, to increase spending, users must cover a higher share of the costs.
MDBs already help, individually and collectively, to leverage scarce official assistance to attract enough capital to finance development projects.
Counterfeit notes could of course be used to purchase scarce resources or pay spies.
How should scarce public resources be applied?
Species evolve, Darwin said, through “natural selection” – the random selection, through competition, of biological traits favorable to survival in a world of scarce resources.
Society would be spending scarce resources on losers rather than winners.
This decision would not be directed against individual mobility, but against the dissipation of a scarce resource that is more urgently needed to produce synthetic materials.
With early-stage investors scarce, governments turning away from blue-sky science, and funders of university-based research increasingly demanding that grantees’ show the “impact” of their work, who will fund risk-taking?
In other words we should shift attention away from concern with the "rights" of future generations to some allegedly scarce resources and concentrate on the non-material legacy which can add far more to the well-being of future generations than a bit more oil or whatever.
In some places, nutritious food is becoming scarce.
The market will equate the benefit and the cost, and scarce resources will be used in adequate amounts.
In health-care systems where scarce medical resources are allocated on a fee-for-service basis, such as in the US, this means that many people cannot afford to get tested.
Both the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization initially did not recommend face masks for the public, fearing scarce supplies for health professionals.
And if one town gets the goods, but another does not, then merchants will have an incentive to arbitrage (buying goods where they are abundant and selling them where they are scarce), thus evening things out.
The Internet and mobile-phone technology have enabled scarce medical specialists to serve patients in remote places using telemedicine, and facilitated the rise of distance-learning university campuses, giving students everywhere access to professors who previously were available only to those in major cities or on university campuses.
With the federal government failing to coordinate procurement of medical supplies to combat COVID-19, state and local governments have reportedly been competing to purchase scarce personal protective equipment and ventilators, thus driving up prices.
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