Food insecurity was a result of inadequate access to natural resources, employment, income or social support.

Among these wide ranging causes are unequal distribution of income and assets, insecurity and vulnerability, and social exclusion and powerlessness.

For example, lack of education and income continues to constrain women's ability to seek health care.

They cannot provide real collateral.

Poverty has been conventionally viewed as the lack of income or purchasing power to secure basic needs.

Of concern was the lack of progress in addressing the debt problem of middle income countries.

Unemployment benefits are calculated on the basis of the gross earnings that an unemployed person cannot achieve because of a lack of suitable vacancies reduced by the statutorily prescribed deductions normally imposed on workers.

Adolescent girls are often deprived of secondary education because of early marriage, pregnancy, domestic chores and lack of family income.

There is both a knowledge deficit and an understanding deficit.

The amount of revenue from cocoa production and exports and how it is allocated lack fiscal transparency.

But the problem was a lack of resources, not a lack of willingness.

Intra State conflicts are a key reason for the lack of security, of investment and of development.

In such cases, income generating activities may not be sustainable due to lack of market for products.

The elaboration of African national reports is hampered by the lack of standardized systems for collecting data, and by insufficient coordination among the institutions storing the information.

Extreme poverty as the composite of income poverty, human development poverty and social exclusion can be defined as extreme capability deprivation.

As to the low number of replies received to questionnaires, she believed that that was due to a number of factors, including short deadlines and a lack of experts, rather than to a lack of interest.

Moreover, legal loopholes prevented the repatriation of misappropriated funds.

What is often presumed to indicate lack of commitment happens to be lack of capacity.

There is no lack of material or ideas on the subject.

Given the shortage of fertilizer and inputs during the current planting season, next year's harvest will be worse than this year's, with grave implications for food security.

He is lacking in experience.

He is lacking in common sense.

He is wanting in courage.

She is lacking in common sense.

You're impatient.

Insular, love of imitation,

Poverty was defined not only as lack of income, but lack of power.

Also, there is no provision for entering into false denunciation or accession reservations.

Generally speaking, the reception and reintegration proceeded smoothly, despite the lack of equipment and especially food.

Efforts to reinstate the service will continue.

6.2 States should subsidize water and sanitation services for low income households and poor areas that lack the means to secure access to such services.

Most of their Governments lack sufficient resources for the collection of comprehensive information and the conduct of in depth examinations of issues and strategic approaches.

Eh, I never get around to brushing and flossing as much as I should, they were characterized as low efficacy.

Inertia, lack of action.

Resources are scarce.

Lack of service specifications

Lack of political support

I'm glad your not going on with the game.

The issues of energy shortages, resource depletion, topsoil loss, and pollution are all symptoms of a single, larger problem

75. One all embracing negative factor is the inadequate State administration which is due to the lack of material resources and trained human resources, the lack of transparency in management and the lack of coordination among the different services.

Such tax induced distortions would lead to an inefficient regional allocation of investment and possible tax competition.

Women in Panama earned less than men and were not equally represented in positions of decision making, while institutional mechanisms for gender equality lacked financial resources.

The target population is low income women who are unemployed or under employed and who are unable to enter the skilled trades area because of a lack of math skills, computer competency and hands on experience on technical equipment.

Taking into consideration the lack of transparency and of formal agreements with regard to non strategic nuclear weapons,

The other reasons given were the unavailability of obstetric facilities (3.2 per cent), the high cost of services (6.6 per cent) and premature birth (9.6 per cent).