Shortages
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Food security arguments resonate well in Japan, owing to memories of
shortages
during World War II and its aftermath.
Large majorities, meanwhile, agree that “migrants generally help address labor-market shortages.”
A formula for “just” prices keeps all prices artificially low (setting higher prices buys violators a ticket to prison), causing shortages, rationing, and queues that consume many hours of most Venezuelans’ days.
Shortages
of critical items have already cost many lives, not to mention the devastating effects on production.
Participating clinics have been equipped with an online system to track drug inventories and avoid
shortages.
The economic emancipation of women had to wait till after World War II, when permanent male labor
shortages
– the result, incidentally, of Keynesian full-employment policies – pulled ever more women out of domesticity and into factories and shops.
Health-care settings in the developing world often face even steeper challenges, such as lack of technical capacity among hospital management, staff shortages, poor training, low-quality medicines, and relative impunity for medical malpractice.
Many countries have kept power and water prices too low and have ended up with
shortages.
The dual-exchange-rate system ends up distorting production incentives and causing the effective supply of imported goods to decline, leading to a combination of inflation and
shortages.
Countries need to know that their companies will not suffer either from outflows of electricity to other EU countries during shortages, or from price increases, owing to the rising emphasis on renewables.
And yet they found it worthwhile, given the hunger, shortages, and desperation at home.
The three revolutions that made the modern world, in France, Russia, and China, all had their immediate origins in food shortages, fear of hunger, and disputes about food pricing.
Beyond supply-side structural adjustments, China must ensure that its new growth strategy addresses “last mile” demand-side problems of urban and human development, including traffic jams, infrastructure bottlenecks, housing shortages, underdeveloped waste-management services, and inadequate education and health care.
While it has been making slow but steady progress, its future is clouded by worsening water shortages; though it straddles the Yellow River, the water table is dwindling fast.
The Iranian government fears that electricity shortages, slow economic growth, and high unemployment will turn the populace against it.
Current projections indicate that uranium
shortages
in the coming years can be avoided only if existing and new uranium mines operate according to plan.
It thus seems unavoidable that energy consumers, especially in many rich countries, will have to learn to exchange their current worries about the distant future consequences of global warming for the reality of energy
shortages
during periods of peak demand.
Such
shortages
could result either in chaotic supplies and power outages or in a coordinated policy of energy rationing.
Its government has run the country’s economy and society into the ground, overseeing the world’s steepest decline in output, highest inflation rate, and second highest murder rate, not to mention
shortages
beyond compare.
The problem is that the government has paid almost no cost for its systematic lies, even when these involve scapegoating poor Colombians for Venezuela’s shortages, and illegally expelling hundreds of them, and destroying their homes.
If water
shortages
persist, migration is certain to follow.
Already, in the Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas, where manufacturing activity is the densest, labor
shortages
have appeared.
In the long run, as labor
shortages
become acute, China will need to relinquish some low-end, labor-intensive manufacturing activities, which will translate into decelerating export performance and lower economic growth.
Progress will require eliminating
shortages
of doctors and nurses, adopting electronic recordkeeping, and strengthening the availability and quality of primary care.
The increase in energy demand has already led to power
shortages
in the oil-producing countries, which are expected to reduce exports this summer.
And they can build such plants in faster than the oil-consuming countries can establish alternatives to oil imports, exacerbating future
shortages.
The alternative – allowing serious housing
shortages
to go unaddressed – will make it impossible for future generations to put down roots.
Such shortages, no surprise, have stoked inflation.
After 40 years of fearing energy shortages, we have entered an era of abundance.
Today’s energy “crisis” stems not from shortages, but from anxiety over pollution.
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