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And water
shortages
have aggravated the region’s refugee crisis (itself the apotheosis of poor governance).
All of the presidential candidates had made wild promises; but the absence of significant achievement, such as resolving the country’s chronic
shortages
of gas and electricity, helped to fuel the massive anti-Morsi mobilization.
Shortages
of construction materials do not seem to be a reason to expect high home prices, either.
Or will fiscal pressures lead, in some countries, to vaccine shortages, to declines in immunization coverage, or even, in the worst case, to vaccines being dropped altogether from national programs, reversing the hard-won gains of recent years?
The economy in Europe and the United States, Krugman argued, had fallen from glory and returned to a pre-World War II pattern of “depression economics,” in which its dominant features were
shortages
of aggregate demand, risks of deflation, financial crises, and liquidity traps.
On the contrary, in the Sunni arc today, it means a vicious cycle of expanding extremism, rapid population growth, rising unemployment, worsening water shortages, and popular discontent.
Such disasters not only cause death by drowning or starvation, but also damage crops and make them vulnerable to infection and infestations by pests and choking weeds, thereby contributing to food
shortages
and malnutrition.
With the collapse in the price of oil since then, the economy has gone into a tailspin: GDP is contracting at a record pace, inflation is in excess of 200%, the currency has plunged to less than 10% of its previous value, and massive
shortages
have emerged.
Despite the great efforts made to manage refrigeration amid blackouts caused by power shortages, customers are not turning out.
In January 2009, Gazprom ordered cutbacks of deliveries through Ukraine, causing severe
shortages
in six countries in eastern and southeastern Europe.
Widespread
shortages
have fueled rampant inflation, with hyperinflation a growing risk.
Power
shortages
are frequent.
The only “alternative” to harnessing all feasible energy sources will be a slow-growth world of permanent
shortages
and increasing misery.
Any good leader knows that scientific discovery and innovation fuels progress, facilitates development, and can help tackle issues like food insecurity, water shortages, and climate change.
But bureaucracy, propaganda, and misinformation are preventing millions of African farmers, including in Kenya, from accessing a technology that can improve livelihoods and help to redress food
shortages.
At the same time, countries facing
shortages
will gain greatly from being able to reduce their own resource needs.
Heat
shortages
at the height of this year’s bitter winter left more than 60 people dead, and Iran is perhaps the only major oil producer whose population claims that economic conditions have worsened despite a tripling of oil prices.
Unemployment is down to 2.7%, the lowest level since 1993, and the job-opening-to-application ratio is 1.56, its highest level since 1974, resulting in acute labor
shortages
in several sectors, including construction, retail, and package delivery.
Considering the current labor shortages, why Japan has not experienced a healthy wage-inflation spiral remains a mystery.
Moreover, it is now the world’s largest natural-gas producer and calorie exporter, which has reduced its vulnerability to price shocks or food
shortages.
We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security, and women’s empowerment.
This, in turn, reflects global economic and population growth, with resulting
shortages
of critical resources – fuel, food, and clean air and water.
This indicates that there is global momentum for concrete action to address the causes of climate change, as well as its effects, such as the disastrous floods, water shortages, and droughts already afflicting many countries.
Electricity
shortages
have intensified on Yar’Adua’s watch, producing blackouts in many areas of the country and darkening the foreign investment climate.
Too many primary schools suffer from crippling teacher shortages, for example, and gender discrimination prevents millions of girls from even attending high school.
And South Africa’s growth has been weak, not least due to energy
shortages.
Europe, Japan, the United States, and eventually China and East Asia will face labor
shortages.
Thus, if alternative energy technologies did not come on-line by the time oil production started to fall, global
shortages
would become inevitable, while closing the investment deficit would take years, even in the face of rising oil prices.
Isolationist policies, by contrast, always lead to
shortages
and discontent.
Many of the world’s problems today can be traced to energy use, from conflicts over oil supplies and concerns about greenhouse-gas emissions to lost productivity and output stemming from
shortages
and blackouts.
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