Shortages
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In response to increasing labor shortages, the 21st century will bring new roles for Japanese women.
Undertaking this kind of analysis and forecasting becomes even more crucial when companies enter new markets where different risks (for example, local skills shortages, high turnover, or soaring costs) can easily mean the difference between success and failure.
For starters, rapid growth and labor
shortages
(owing to an unfavorable demographic transition) have caused wages in China to rise substantially, far exceeding those of other developing countries such as Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam.
But, while we have seen financial panics since then, there have been no real
shortages
or productive breakdowns.
For example, a new road or railway linking a mine to a harbor should also address food
shortages
and improve access to health services and education.
Currently, the government is trying to slow the GDP growth rate, and job
shortages
are emerging in coastal areas.
Nor is it surprising that, with inadequate foreign exchange, the country is having difficulty paying its bills, or that price controls and police-state regulation have severely worsened food
shortages.
Moreover labor
shortages
began to appear, and Chinese workers began to win rapid wage increases.
But, like all good agreements, the deal is a “win-win”: it helps India cope with crippling energy
shortages
by tripling its nuclear power generating capacity, and it provides major business opportunities for American companies to sell reactors and nuclear technology.
Life in Damascus, despite increasing shortages, seems almost normal.
For companies facing skills shortages, this should be particularly tempting.
But chronic hunger remains pervasive, particularly in developing countries, which are affected most by crop
shortages
and food-price volatility.
Previous governments sought to avoid difficult policy choices and obfuscate fundamental issues by implementing inefficient controls that grossly misallocated resources and undermined Argentina’s ability to generate the foreign-exchange earnings needed to cover its import bill, resulting in domestic
shortages.
This year, China experienced its worst drought in a half-century, which affected millions of acres of farmland and caused power
shortages.
Japan, which faces stagnant wages, despite apparent labor shortages, may stand to benefit the most from this approach.
But economic collapse, hyperinflation, and food
shortages
have destroyed faith in that system.
In Iraq, a large agricultural sector operates on fairly marginal lands, where farmers fight a constant battle against salt intrusion and face severe water
shortages.
In this case, forecasters paint a doomsday scenario of economic collapse, gridlock on roads and rail,
shortages
of food, medicine, and fuel: 1940 all over again (but not exactly Britain’s finest hour).
According to a 2008 study of 36 developing countries, torturous registration and approval processes create frequent
shortages
of 15 of the most commonly used generic medicines.
In the mid-twentieth century, for example, a boom in phosphate mining transformed the Micronesian island state of Nauru from a land of food
shortages
and starvation to the world’s leader in obesity and type-2 diabetes.
Given that this is unlikely, supply
shortages
are inevitable.
Myriad details were addressed: Thailand flew ambassadors to the affected part of the country to help attend to the needs of their citizens, helped those who lost their money and passports return home, provided health care for the injured, set up systems to identify bodies, and dealt with the difficulties posed by
shortages
of body bags and the lack of cold storage facilities.
Asia has less fresh water per capita than any other continent, and it is already facing a water crisis that, according to an MIT study, will continue to intensify, with severe water
shortages
expected by 2050.
Reforms to overcome Pakistan’s constant power
shortages
have been discussed for the last decade, and yet the losses continue to mount.
Meanwhile, education goes underfunded, energy and water
shortages
grow more frequent and severe, economic imbalances worsen, and the government’s policymaking capacity continues to erode.
Millions of Asians now confront severe water shortages, and some have been forced to relocate.
BEIJING – Reports about labor shortages, wage disputes, and wage increases for migrant workers in China have abounded of late.
This is the sine qua non for beginning to face and correct intense and deeply rooted problems, such as redressing the country’s poverty, obscene distribution of income, the vast educational shortages, a precarious health system, a devastated infrastructure caused by long years of insufficient investment, and the rest of a long list of other miseries typical of underdevelopment.
Children in urban war zones die in vast numbers from diarrhea, respiratory infections, and other causes, owing to unsafe drinking water, lack of refrigerated foods, and acute
shortages
of blood and basic medicines at clinics and hospitals (that is, if civilians even dare to leave their houses for medical care).
Ethiopia is also dealing with its worst drought in decades, which has already contributed to the failure of many crops, creating food
shortages
that now affect around a tenth of the population.
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