In that connection, the shortage of finance, both start up capital and long term finance, was a major problem for SMEs.

In rural areas, a shortage of pasture and fertile land restrains development and is cause for internal migration towards the capital.

Shortage of food

Experiencing shortage of food

Shortage in extrabudgetary funding

That raises the question as to why internal momentum for growth, based on financial and human capital of which there is no overall shortage has failed to materialize.

(i) Shortage of financial resources

Tighter US monetary policy could intensify the global credit shortage, thereby increasing pressure on Asia s economic and financial systems. Overreaction and herding behavior by market participants could trigger a sudden reversal of capital inflows, with a severe dollar shortage as occurred in 1997 and 2008 straining Asian banks and corporations.

Pollution, energy shortage, environmental diversity, poverty.

There was a shortage of fuel.

(b) A shortage of medical specialists

Is there a shortage of rouge?

A shortage of work. Money problems.

Those conditions resulted in a shortage of working capital for many small and microenterprises, which were increasingly faced with trading conditions which dictated that they purchase in cash but sell on credit.

quot (b) A shortage of medical specialists

Moreover, because financial institutions assets were bought mainly with borrowed money, the shortage of credit is exacerbated by their need to deleverage. Since raising capital is difficult and costly, they deleverage by lending less.

The consequences of the lack of fuel, combined with the electricity shortage in the capital, occasionally forced some humanitarian agencies to use a considerable portion of their fuel reserves to run their office generators.

But we have a major shortage of organs.

There is a shortage of good building wood.

Another constraining factor is the shortage of finance.

No end in sight for the electricity shortage.

408. More than half of the households surveyed had experienced little shortage of food (53.6 per cent), 27.8 per cent of households had definitely not experienced shortage of food, and 11.8 per cent had experienced shortage of food.

And 40 states already have an acute nursing shortage.

Sadly, today there is no shortage of human suffering.

There is no shortage of material to work on.

23. The Government still experiences a severe cash shortage.

The housing shortage was particularly acute in East Jerusalem.

(i) The shortage of information on all health matters

Any good bank clerk can cover up alittle shortage.

There's a serious shortage of cups aboard this ship.

Well There is no shortage of disasters every year.

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

A number of countries reported a shortage of qualified staff.

There is an estimated shortage of around 1.5 million vacancies.

(a) A shortage of all forms of first aid treatment

At one time, it was thought that since developing countries had less capital than more developed countries, merely supplying more capital would solve their problems. Indeed, this view provided part of the rationale for the World Bank if a shortage of funds was the problem, clearly a Bank would have to be a key part of the solution.

These include direct financial support, e.g. financial assistance to overcome a shortage of venture capital or seed money to establish venture capital funds fiscal and credit incentives, e.g. exemption from import duties on equipment, tax exemptions on royalties, accelerated depreciation schemes or subsidized loans and deregulation, e.g. regulatory reform in order to remove the boundaries between different services.

A key constraint is the shortage of strong microfinance institutions (MFIs).

quot (a) A shortage of all types of first aid facilities

Table 50. Households experiencing shortage of food, by socio economic group

You sound as if you hadn't heard of the man 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.

Dianchi Lake near the provincial capital, Kunming, is so shrunken and polluted that the city faces a serious water shortage. Water from the Tiger Leaping Gorge will be diverted to flush out Dianchi Lake, without which Kunming will not prosper.

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

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.