However, as the briefing indicated, the crucial issue of the shortage of expert capacity should be promptly addressed.

Pollution, energy shortage, environmental diversity, poverty.

There was a shortage of fuel.

But we have a major shortage of organs.

There is a shortage of good building wood.

And 40 states already have an acute nursing shortage.

Huge shortage of organs, God forbid, if you need one.

For SMEs, a shortage of customers, not a shortage of credit, constrained borrowing, employment, and output. And the customers were absent because the pre crisis credit boom had left them over leveraged.

Although the confidence of enterprises declined, the latest Tankan highlighted the robustness of enterprise capital expenditure plans, benefiting from the renewed capacity and increased investment in robots and automation to cope with the labor shortage caused by the aging of population.

Ms. Reine (Latvia), addressing the Committee's questions concerning Latvia's constitutional and institutional structure, noted that the combined initial, second and third periodic report of Latvia (CEDAW C LVA 1 3) had been submitted late owing to a shortage of human capacity.

While the capacity of the public administration has been greatly enhanced, some core State institutions, particularly in the justice and finance sectors, still rely on international advisers for the performance of line functions owing to a shortage of qualified personnel.

That energy shortage in developing countries is a basic impediment to development.

A substantial barrier to broader access for women to participate in the development of physical fitness and sports is the shortage of specialists, equipment, gear and athletic facilities and the shortage of funding.

The recent shortage of coffee has given rise to a lot of problems.

Due to the water shortage, all the flowers in the garden have died.

The shortage of specialized personnel is obvious, and is concentrated in large centres.

The first has to do with the shortage in the number of experts.

While this important gesture will alleviate to some extent the shortage of accommodation for the armed forces, the overall shortage of accommodation remains a serious problem, which negatively affects the morale of the armed forces.

There's actually a major health crisis today in terms of the shortage of organs.

Increasing the extent to which Government agencies are able to use the existing and potential skills and capacity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees in order to meet their business needs for skilled employees, including in areas of specific skill shortage and recruitment difficulty

This increase in child mortality resulted from acute food shortages, combined with heightened morbidity and reduced capacity of the health system to manage childhood illness caused by a severe shortage of essential drugs and general degradation of health infrastructure and water and sanitation systems.

Other challenges facing our region include high levels of poverty and income inequality, a persistent food shortage and an emerging water shortage both due largely to drought and environmental degradation as well as to institutional, policy and resource constraints.

This story is fundamentally different from the savings shortage and savings glut hypotheses, and it leads to dramatically different policies. Developing countries need to grow, but nowadays it is easier to acquire capacity and grow through FDI than it is to develop domestic mass consumption markets.

There is also a severe shortage of investment, both local and foreign, in many developing countries.

In rural areas of the country there is a shortage of trained and qualified female teachers.

Certainly we are suffering from a shortage of resolutions related, directly or indirectly, to nuclear disarmament.

So for the past few years, the coastal areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.

The food shortage could also jeopardize the return of refugees in places such as Afghanistan and Liberia.

The Committee notes with concern the shortage of access to safe drinking water in highly industrialized areas.

In the northern city of Korhogo, the supply reservoir is nearly dry, causing an acute water shortage.

Sudan had so far been unable to implement its integrated programme, largely because of a shortage of funds.

The shortage of water in the Gaza Strip has increased its price to five times that in Israel.

One of my favorites is what happened a few months ago when there was a gas shortage in Atlanta.

The major problem which UNIDO faced was the shortage of funds, which hampered full implementation of strategies and plans.

The health and education sectors continue to suffer from inadequate infrastructure and a shortage of financial and human resources.

There are serious obstacles to developing the agricultural sector, such as a shortage of labour, water and marketing facilities.

Because there is no shortage of food worldwide, combating hunger implies providing people with the means of acquiring food.

It also confirms the ability of the War Crimes Chamber to perform its tasks, in spite of difficulties that range from a shortage of funds, to a shortage of jail space, to the problem of dual citizenship of indictees, which has already been brought to the court's attention.

But I learned that there was a desperate shortage of skills, especially mathematical skills, in industry, in government, in education.

And We afflicted the people of Pharaoh with barren years, and with shortage of crops, that they may take heed.

And We afflicted the people of Pharaoh with barren years, and with shortage of crops, that they may take heed.

The food shortage is particularly disturbing since only a few years ago Zimbabwe was a net exporter of food supplies.

Furthermore, there is a growing shortage of supplies needed for HIV AIDS prevention, contraception and other vital reproductive health services.

This year, however, the low water level in the river resulted in a serious shortage of water in the village.

At the mission level, OIOS noted that a shortage of qualified personnel is making it difficult to effectively manage MICA.