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But development data remain a scarce resource in the developing world.
Advocates suggest – rightfully, I think – that scarce tax dollars should be spent only on programs that “work.”
When information is plentiful, the scarce resource is attention.
Moreover, financial and human resources for military affairs are scarce and cannot be duplicated, while France and Britain want to restart the Saint-Malo process of bilateral defense efforts launched nearly ten years ago.
Hollande’s reference point seems to be the post-war idyll of his youth, a time of rapid growth, demographic recovery, scarce immigration, and scant global competition.
By misstating the problems, these approaches threaten to divert scarce resources into the wrong remedies.
It is almost enough to have one longing again for the day when information was a scarce resource and one had to go out to find it.
But perhaps what countries really fear is not so much high prices but a total market breakdown and descent into an autarkic “Mad Max” world in which oil is scarce, no country is willing to allow trade in the oil it produces, and there is no world market clearing price.
The HO-SS theory, which dominated international economic thinking from the 1950s through 1970s, predicted that international trade would benefit the abundant factor of production (in rich countries, the owners of capital) and hurt the scarce factor of production (in rich countries, unskilled labor).
But for people who live in poor communities, tools and medicines to diagnose and treat the condition are scarce and often priced beyond their means.
Indeed, in virtually all advanced economies, high levels of inequality, strains on the middle class, and aging populations will fuel political strife in a context of unemployment and scarce fiscal resources.
Yes, the initial disequilibrium shock of the industrial revolution was and is associated with rapidly rising inequality as opportunities are opened to aggressiveness and enterprise, and as the market prices commanded by key scarce skills rise sky-high.
As a result, high prices for scarce resources lead not to zero- or negative-sum political games of transfer but to positive-sum economic games of training more craft workers and engineers, mentoring more entrepreneurs and managers, and investing in more machines and buildings.
Land is also increasingly scarce.
If we continue on our current course – leaving fate to the markets, and leaving governments to compete with each other over scarce oil and food – global growth will slow under the pressures of resource constraints.
More importantly, they are needed in the long term, because a world crowded with 6.8 billion people (and rising) simply cannot sustain economic growth unless it adopts sustainable technologies that economize on scarce natural resources.
If desirable real estate is in scarce supply, credit creation and allocation can at times be driven not by rational analysis of alternative investment projects, but by self-reinforcing cycles in which more credit drives asset prices higher, which then sustains expectations of further rises, leading to more borrowing demand and credit supply.
Budget room will be scarce for many other worthwhile programs, among them: aid to poor countries, where the US is scandalously stingy; paying dues in arrears to the UN; creating jobs for mothers who will, under the cruel welfare "reform" Clinton signed in 1996, be denied public assistance for themselves and their children.
It must be sustainable: growth based on environmental degradation, a debt-financed consumption binge, or the exploitation of scarce natural resources, without reinvesting the proceeds, is not sustainable.
Our resources are scarce.
Talent is now recognized as a scarce commodity that needs to be nurtured for a worldwide market of skills and competencies.
As the dramatic shrinkage of the Aral Sea, Lake Chad, and the Dead Sea illustrate, it now requires preserving scarce natural resources and ensuring their equitable distribution among conflicting needs.
Entrepreneurship, investment, and economic growth suffer when savings are stored outside the financial system, and credit is scarce and expensive.
Russian corruption goes beyond levels experienced elsewhere, and for three reasons:The Communist Party, where many leaders began their careers, was a breeding ground for corruption in the form of privileges (dachas, private hospitals, restaurants, vacation homes, scarce consumer goods) reserved for communist leaders.
Will we acknowledge our predicament only when our land becomes a desert, when our health systems collapse under the strain, when even the wealthy are facing food shortages, when freshwater becomes scarce, and when our national shorelines are breached?
In a poor country, capital – whether factories, infrastructure, or schools – is scarce, so the rate of return on new investment is high.
Is it really sensible for transition economies to divert scarce budget resources towards increased defense spending?
In Vietnam, an estimated 1,000 households farm and trade pythons, and python harvesting in Malaysia provides incomes for low-skilled, low-income workers during periods when other employment opportunities are either out of season, or simply scarce because of larger economic factors.
Confronting Africa’s Water ChallengeABIDJAN – Water is essential for life, and yet it is scarce in many parts of the world.
But rapid urbanization is driving up industrial fossil-fuel consumption and household water consumption, and is increasing demand for food in areas where arable land is scarce.
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