Bush referred to the reasons for shortages and price hikes.

Surpluses are applied to repaying debt, and borrowing finances deficits.

Such shortages, no surprise, have stoked inflation.

China has long run large surpluses.

Crowded conditions are leading to shortages in food, shelter, water and sanitation.

Countries running surpluses must adopt expansionary policies and appreciate their currencies.

Sen also examined various African countries that experienced crop failures and food shortages.

Europe, Japan, the United States, and eventually China and East Asia will face labor shortages.

Germany and the eurozone core were already running large surpluses in the absence of policies to boost domestic demand, those surpluses have simply risen further.

Latin America, Argentina and Brazil have been running comfortable external surpluses recently.

Spain and Ireland had fiscal surpluses and low debt GDP ratios before the crisis.

Life in Damascus, despite increasing shortages, seems almost normal.

Many countries have kept power and water prices too low and have ended up with shortages.

By mid 2002, those projected surpluses had vanished.

In Venezuela, land reform and socialist rhetoric did not prevent chronic shortages of milk, sugar, and beef.

Moreover labor shortages began to appear, and Chinese workers began to win rapid wage increases.

They invested, and still invest, their budgetary surpluses worldwide in government bonds and state owned enterprises.

Indeed, Russia is running fiscal and current account surpluses of 2 and 17 of GDP respectively.

Her decision has raised the profile of Malawi, home to recurrent food shortages and seasonal famines.

The supply of African professionals and skilled workers, meanwhile, is tight shortages also drive up wages.

Steadily rising prices of raw materials, agricultural products, and energy already reflect fears about future shortages.

The main hospital problems are the shortages of medical supplies, of river ambulance and of electricity.

Alien Axioms maintained that GMOs will not solve Kenya s food shortages

Violence erupted all over the city because of the food shortages.

Its launch has sharply weakened the yen and is now leading to rising trade surpluses.

Indeed, countries from Singapore to Russia are running large surpluses.

Indeed, countries from Singapore to Russia are running large surpluses.

Does aiding dictators who use food aid for political purposes end famine and food shortages in Africa?

But John Maynard Keynes pointed out that surpluses lead to weak global aggregate demand countries running surpluses exert a negative externality on their trading partners.

The Russians bombed numerous strategic and civilian targets in Georgia, destroying infrastructure and producing growing shortages of food, fuel, and medicine.

Greece overspent, but Spain and Ireland had fiscal surpluses and low debt to GDP ratios before the crisis.

But, while none is in short supply globally, local shortages may occur.

True, not long ago the renminbi was substantially undervalued, and China s trade surpluses were very large.

They would run down their trade surpluses and, in some cases, allow their currencies to appreciate.

This, in turn, reflects global economic and population growth, with resulting shortages of critical resources fuel, food, and clean air and water.

The book, written by a team of scientists, predicted disastrous shortages and mass starvation due to population pressure.

Already, in the Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas, where manufacturing activity is the densest, labor shortages have appeared.

Already, in the Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas, where manufacturing activity is the densest, labor shortages have appeared.

Alternatives do need to be explored, including more efficient use, diversification into more easily accessible substitutes, and reduction of overall consumption (though in all these cases, it is easier to deal with energy shortages than food shortages).

The reasons were many poor weather, pests, shortages of animal power after peasants slaughtered livestock rather than losing it to the collective, shortages of tractors, the shooting and deportation of the best farmers, and the disruption of sowing and reaping caused by collectivization itself.

This pact would monitor current account imbalances and penalize excessive deficits or surpluses in the external account.

Countries running surpluses accumulate massive stocks of foreign assets, and those resources have to be invested somewhere.

BEIJING Reports about labor shortages, wage disputes, and wage increases for migrant workers in China have abounded of late.

The Iranian government fears that electricity shortages, slow economic growth, and high unemployment will turn the populace against it.

Food security arguments resonate well in Japan, owing to memories of shortages during World War II and its aftermath.