Shortages
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As climate change leads to deeper and more frequent droughts, the resulting water
shortages
will require new, sometimes difficult, solutions that go beyond futile attempts to placate the public.
It is time to turn off the tap on subsidized water and find a real cure for persistent water
shortages.
Four decades ago, countries not only endured the immediate economic impact of the OPEC embargo; they leveraged the potential of the resulting oil
shortages
to spur innovation.
While this option would be difficult to implement in areas with chronic water shortages, government-led distribution programs have worked elsewhere.
The ensuing migration eased labor
shortages
in host countries like the UK and Germany, and increased the earnings of the migrants themselves.
Watering the Middle EastFEZ – The United Nations World Water Development Report confirms what many already know: hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) – especially in Algeria, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen – have faced the worst water
shortages
in decades in 2016.
In Jordan, water
shortages
occur with devastating frequency, particularly in larger cities like Amman.
Corruption and mismanagement, along with structural and external challenges – such as falling oil prices, water shortages, and an aging unemployed population – had already weakened economic growth.
Shortages
of the technical and higher-level skills demanded by new technologies are partly responsible for the paradox of booming technology and slowing productivity growth in advanced economies: skills
shortages
have constrained the diffusion of innovations.
As it happens, Germany’s aging population and declining workforce will create labor
shortages
in the years ahead.
Shortages
of medicines and basic foodstuffs such as milk, sugar, eggs, beef, and chicken abound as a consequence of price controls and mounting inflation.
Lowering the birth rate lowers the overall dependency ratio – though at the risk of future labor shortages, weaker consumer spending, and reduced productivity.
The risk is that policymakers and campaigners will conflate the problems of food
shortages
and starvation with that of population management and its long-term social and economic consequences.
Arguably, the causes of food
shortages
are to be found in the organization, distribution, and waste of resources, not population growth.
Coal is also the single largest contributor to climate change, which threatens to put 400 million people in the poorest countries at risk of severe food and water
shortages
by 2050.
Unexpected events, such as flooding and drought, can have dire consequences: sharp drops in rural incomes, surging food bills, and severe food
shortages.
Europe could finance more and better training to help meet its own labor shortages, while African countries would be able to provide employment for their young people.
More people move from the US to Mexico than the other way around; if anything, the US needs more newcomers to help make up for labor shortages, particularly in the care sector.
In Tbilisi alone, there are more than 500 camps for internally displaced people, many of them women and children living with
shortages
of food and medical supplies.
The Russians bombed numerous strategic and civilian targets in Georgia, destroying infrastructure and producing growing
shortages
of food, fuel, and medicine.
If all of this happened, the price of oil would skyrocket owing to
shortages
and fears, possibly driving much of the world economy, already in a precarious position, into recession.
These are just the latest sources of concern in a turbulent period that began two years ago when food
shortages
hit many countries in Africa and Asia due to a worldwide spike in prices.
Asia’s Future FarmsMANILA – Food
shortages
are a distant memory for many people in Asia.
Only then will food
shortages
truly be a thing of the past.
Steadily rising prices of raw materials, agricultural products, and energy already reflect fears about future
shortages.
The resulting water
shortages
disproportionately hurt the poorest residents, who were often forced to buy jerrycans of water at exorbitant prices.
Tariffs and TortillasBUENOS AIRES – Ever since Mexico’s so-called “Tortilla crisis” this past January, street protests against food
shortages
and high prices, or against increasing taxes on agricultural production, have spread from Haiti to Central American countries, and across Latin America.
The paradox of Latin America’s food crisis is that, although the region is a major food producer, it sometimes needs to rely on imports to prevent sporadic
shortages.
In Venezuela, land reform and socialist rhetoric did not prevent chronic
shortages
of milk, sugar, and beef.
On April 23, Brazil announced a temporary suspension of rice exports to prevent internal
shortages.
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