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In 1989, in the heady days of perestroika, I addressed the Biannual Congress of Soviet Filmmakers in Moscow, suggesting they concentrate scarce resources on training - training a generation of filmmakers with confidence in their own culture, a confidence to go out and address the world's audiences.
Conflict is increasing as communities compete for scarce resources.
In rural Africa, where doctors are typically very scarce and AIDS prevalence is often high, the high life-saving potential of CHWs has been very well demonstrated and documented.
Young people, frustrated with socioeconomic systems that are clearly tilted in favor of retirees, are increasingly calling for fairer intergenerational redistribution of scarce resources.
This will be no easy feat – especially as Indians compete for scarce opportunities in an overpopulated land.
Jobs are scarce, and the future looks bleak everywhere.
When the British economist John Maynard Keynes anticipated the “euthanasia of the rentier” in his 1936 book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, he was referring to a financial class that served no purpose other than to exploit scarce capital for its own benefit.
Cattle herding allowed nomads to create livelihoods in an increasingly unpredictable and challenging environment, characterized by an arid climate and scarce resources.
What many citizens do want now is greater personal and political freedom, and greater control over government, so that scarce goods like housing are distributed more fairly.
If polarization and strife increase, much-needed investment will not materialize, and the state’s already scarce human capital will flee, making it all but impossible to improve economic performance.
Attention, rather than information, becomes the scarce resource to capture.
When food is scarce, people share.
When resources are scarce, or so degraded that they can no longer sustain livelihoods, or inequitably distributed, conflict invariably ensues.
However, details of that agreement were scarce, and less than two months later, US tariffs on Chinese goods valued at $34 billion came into effect, with China immediately announcing retaliatory tariffs.
Attention and scarce resources can end up being devoted to solving the wrong challenge, and we get more police on the streets or reduced civil liberties, rather than more welfare-enhancing – but less newsy – policies like improving pre-schools or health care.
The other item for India's next government to get on top of is its growing military budget which eats away more scarce resources as each year goes by.
Third, the fight against terrorism is sucking up scarce financial resources.
If, in a world of scarce jobs, those with political connections get them, and if, in a world of limited wealth, government officials accumulate masses of money, there will be justifiable outrage at such inequities – and at the perpetrators of these “crimes.”
Populist policies that transfer scarce budget funds to hundreds of millions of rural men and women end up encouraging them to withdraw their labor services, driving up wages and undermining international competitiveness.
In the nineteenth century, chronic disease was considered problematic in part because sufferers took up scarce beds in hospitals that were increasingly focused on treating acute, curable diseases.
The great Eurasian civilizations were all dependent on agriculture and needed to create institutional means of tying labor, which was then scarce, to the land, which was abundant.
These benefits arise because capital and technology are so scarce in developing countries that they yield a higher return than in developed economies.
Meat of any kind is so scarce that the market price of a kilogram is equivalent to more than a week of minimum-wage work.
Central banks, in an effort to keep capital away and hold down the exchange rate, risk becoming locked into a cycle of competitive easing aimed at maximizing their countries’ share of scarce existing world demand.
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will probably make themselves scarce when Trump is around.
More broadly, prize competitions to reward targeted innovation and crowd-source new ideas offer a highly cost-effective opportunity for government to leverage its scarce resources for important public goals.
Even at their best, all job boards do is allocate scarce talent resources; they don’t create them.
Governments should take the lead in ensuring careful management and sustainable use of scarce water resources.
Reversing the Medical Brain DrainGRENADA – With physicians already scarce worldwide, demand for foreign-born doctors in the United States and the United Kingdom is stretching developing and middle-income countries’ medical resources to the breaking point.
The only real option for tackling the refugee crisis is to address the causes of people’s displacement, including terrorism, hunger, disease, oppression, inadequate infrastructure, scarce vital resources, a lack of jobs and economic prospects, and falling standards of living.
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