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But now, with oil prices down sharply, Russia’s export revenue has plummeted by 30% this year, and state funds have become very scarce.
Given scarce public-sector resources, private investors must pick up the slack – and they are beginning to do so.
Even in the United States, there is growing concern that so-called hold-up patents and me-too patents – and the sheer thicket of patents, in which any innovation is likely to become entangled in someone else’s IP claims – are diverting scarce research resources away from their most productive uses.
As legions of new consumers gain purchasing power, demand inevitably rises, driving up the price of scarce commodities.
Energy production will no longer be tied to a scarce, ever more expensive resource; on the contrary, as with other technology industries, prices are likely to continue to drop.
Obesity rates tend to explode in countries where food was once scarce and suddenly becomes plentiful.
When pricemarket prices isare not permitted allowed to determine the allocattion ofe scarce resources, waiting lists substitute.
Unfortunately, and political courage is a scarce commodity these days.
Power outages are routine in India, nearly half the country’s households lack any electricity at all, and modern highways are scarce.
Across the continent children are increasingly scarce.
Indeed, after two decades of cheap, abundant energy and exports of surplus output, a new cycle of expensive, scarce, and imported energy has begun, as oil production has fallen by one-third since 1998, and gas production by 15% since 2004.
This makes up for some of the shortcomings that firms in developing countries face as a result of lower public investment, inadequate training and equipment, and scarce financial resources to purchase technology licenses or intellectual property.
That approach uses a combination of measures related to finance, skills, capacity, and risk allocation to leverage relatively scarce public-sector capital to mobilize more robust private-sector resources.
This approach is not only inhumane, but also economically untenable: leaders in these countries should be encouraged to redirect scarce law enforcement, court, and prison resources towards more pressing causes.
But an increasing number of people – already nearly 300 million – are facing the harsh reality of the urban slum, where resources are scarce and economic opportunities are elusive.
But, within countries, competition for scarce water is becoming a more common source of instability and conflict, especially as climate change increases the severity and frequency of extreme weather events.
Jobs are so scarce that many Americans have given up looking--the so-called discouraged worker effect.
Of course, these constraints were at work over previous centuries, before Malthus and Ricardo articulated them, but homo sapiens was able to “cheat” by expanding our resource base (colonialism) to bring in cheaper resources and food; by finding substitutes for scarce resources; and by improving our technology so that the same amounts of land and resources could be used more efficiently.
What is surprisingly scarce in Piketty’s data is evidence that the third movement – the renewed upswing in inequality that started around 1980 – is due to a shift from labor back to capital.
At a time when bank capital is scarce, that impediment carries significant economic costs.
This raises another ethical dilemma: Who should receive such a scarce resource?
It is important to note that even pragmatic arguments about rationing scarce medical resources can be highly controversial.
Maximizing the impact of scarce resources on the lives of the world’s poorest people demands tough choices.
FDI should not be difficult to attract, because the potential returns should be higher in developing countries, where capital is scarce relative to labor.
Time, like money, is a scarce resource; and, because goods and services related to information require our attention, they are time-intensive.
Reporting requirements are onerous and often impose huge administrative burdens on developing countries, which must devote the scarce skills of educated, English-speaking personnel to writing reports for donors rather than running programs.
At the same time, in Africa and Central Asia, water will become more scarce, and drought will reduce food supplies.
Indeed, metaphorically, military power provides a degree of security that is to order as oxygen is to breathing: little noticed until it becomes scarce, at which point its absence dominates all else.
With attention and money in scarce supply, what matters is that we first tackle the problems with the best solutions, doing the most good throughout the century.
The scarce human and financial resources allocated toward stockpile management could be more efficiently directed toward landscape preservation efforts (which can become self-sustaining over time through payment for ecosystem services).
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