Shortages
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When the country isn’t suffering from floods, it is subject to water shortages, ranking as one of the most water-stressed in the world, according to the Asian Development Bank.
The resulting halts to projects or policies – half-built hospitals, unexpected
shortages
of medical supplies, bridges to nowhere – play havoc with their economies.
But, while none is in short supply globally, local
shortages
may occur.
While the Middle East will face serious water shortages, Africa, where most population growth is set to occur, contains numerous unexploited water sources.
Agriculture ministers by themselves will not be able to cope with water
shortages
that farmers will face.
Facing widespread
shortages
of goods and malfunctioning markets, including for foreign exchange, his government has already lost control of the National Assembly, and the opposition is now seeking to shorten his term by constitutional means.
And food
shortages
could grow much worse, as world population is expected to reach nine billion by 2050 or earlier.
This caused output to plummet over 30% (owing to the cut in imported inputs), triggered 700% inflation, and led quickly to widespread
shortages
of essentials.
Indeed, the UN estimates that just six countries prescribe 78% of the total legal production of opiates, implying
shortages
of opium-based painkillers in many of the UN’s 185 other member states.
In Ecuador, former president Rafael Correa managed to get his handpicked successor elected, but low oil prices and dollar
shortages
make a turn toward policy moderation quite likely.
Even though the embargo was aimed at the US and the Netherlands, market forces shifted oil among consumers, and in the long term all consuming countries suffered
shortages
of supply and the same price shock.
Coupled with persistent
shortages
of priests, the worship of saints in Latin America became more embedded in the region’s culture than in that of Europe.
Both bubbles have long since burst, and US households are now dealing with post-bubble financial devastation – namely, underwater assets, record-high debt, and profound
shortages
of savings.
Moreover, the immediacy of the needs created by the 2008 financial crisis in terms of food security and credit
shortages
subdued these debates.
Production chains are facing labor shortages, wage increases, and threats of relocation to lower-cost countries.
Economic failure, chronic food shortages, mounting public distrust of and animosity toward Kim’s government, and an apparent reluctance within elements of the North Korean military to go to war all point to the regime’s increasing fragility.
That trade imbalance implied a continuous drain on gold and silver coin, causing
shortages
of these metals in Rome.
But, given capital shortages, depressed demand, and the slow pace of reform in the eurozone periphery, continued progress is far from certain.
Every day, the world’s largest 100 cities move 3.2 million cubic meters of water more than 5,700 kilometers to address local water
shortages
or problems with pollution.
Droughts have struck in Kenya and Somalia; and Afghanistan and South Africa have suffered major water
shortages.
Nowadays, most talk focuses on migration as a means of letting overpopulated developing countries fill the labor
shortages
of developed countries with graying populations.
Because of the widespread fear in the postwar years of emerging global food shortages, the FAO, and the international community as a whole, focused mainly on food production – a focus that remained essentially the same in the following decades.
Economist Emily Oster has argued that the biggest spikes in witch burnings in the Middle Ages, in which hundreds of thousands (mostly women) were killed, came during periods of economic deprivation and apparently weather-related food
shortages.
Some 250 years ago, Georgian England was the richest society that had ever existed, and yet food
shortages
still afflicted large segments of the population.
Otherwise, resource
shortages
will push up commodity prices and create crises in food, water, fisheries, forests, land use, and housing, thereby leading to greater social injustice.
In 2016, the Nigerian finance minister called out the West for its “hypocrisy” in attempting to block Africa from using coal to solve its power
shortages.
Denying Bangladesh this benefit in the name of combating global warming means to focus on avoiding 23 cents of global climate costs for every $100 of development benefits we ask Bangladeshis to forgo – and this in a country where energy
shortages
cost an estimated 0.5% of GDP, and around 21 million people survive on less than $1.25 per day.
With the exception of one minor adjustment in 2013, it has stuck to a fixed rate since 2011, even after its currency became massively overvalued and started to create imported-goods
shortages.
Facing constant struggle and ongoing food shortages, the Rohingya are prime targets for terrorist recruiting.
These demographic influences will incite severe labor
shortages
early in the 21st century, just when an aging population places severe pressure on health and welfare facilities.
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