Homex impressed him because the demand for low cost housing in Mexico is virtually unlimited: there is a four million unit housing shortage.

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The trouble is not a shortage of tongues, for the Swiss have four of their own.

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But Serco met four out of five standards assessed, compared with only one in a report last year which said there was a shortage of GPs and nurses.

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