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

Pollution, energy shortage, environmental diversity, poverty.

There was a shortage of fuel.

Moreover, the ratio of job openings to applicants, which fell to 0.4 under Japan s last government, led by the Democratic Party of Japan, is now approaching 1.1. Indeed, Japan is beginning to show signs of a labor shortage.

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.

But we have a major shortage of organs.

There is a shortage of good building wood.

Perhaps the most pressing constraint on agricultural production is the impending labor shortage, as rural young people, who traditionally comprise the agricultural labor force, flock to cities. With small farmers unable to provide sufficient surpluses, agricultural production will become increasingly consolidated and mechanized, raising fossil fuel consumption, which will have to be offset by the introduction of more efficient technologies.

And 40 states already have an acute nursing shortage.

If the world continues on its current course, labor market imbalances will worsen significantly in the coming years. Indeed, the world faces a potential shortage of 30 40 million college educated workers in 2020, and a potential surplus of 95 million low skilled workers.

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.

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.

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FI conducted a Training Workshop on UN and International Labor Organization Mechanisms on Trafficking, Bonded Labor and Forced Labor from June 5 7, 2002.

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.

A simpler solution would be to mobilize working age women who already or plan to stay at home. By removing the barriers to employment that women face whether practical obstacles, like insufficient childcare services, or social constraints Japan could substantially increase women s workforce participation rate, creating an invaluable buffer against the growing labor shortage.

Labor Force Estimates

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.

The Department of Supervision of Labor Laws in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and 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.

Scarce labor drives wages.

The Department of Supervision of Labor Laws of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor supervises the enforcement of a number of labor laws, including the Employment of Women Law.

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

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.

All they needed was labor.

Weak Labor, Strong Securities Markets

The DR CAFTA pays lip service to international labor standards as enshrined in the International Labor Organization s core labor rights, but promptly throws them overboard. Instead, countries are committed only to enforcing their own labor laws, which often seem designed to prevent workers from joining a union.

According to official data, China s old age dependency ratio the ratio of those aged 65 and up to working age people (aged 15 64) currently stands at 13 . As the one child generation ages adding some ten million retirees annually this ratio will skyrocket, with the labor surplus that supported China s economic miracle giving way to a severe shortage that depresses growth.

The wrong kind of stimulus may get in the way of future productivity growth by channeling workers into the wrong kind of employment (or keeping them there). Large scale public projects, particularly when they are aimed simply at putting as many people as possible quickly back to work, will lead to a shortage of labor available for more productive jobs.

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.