Inflation will do little for markets with poor supply and demand dynamics.
Stephen Briggs, metals strategist at BNP Paribas, believes that poor ore grades, namely from major mining companies, are at the top of the list for poor mine supply this year.
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The Dakar Conference will just be another talking shop if governments are allowed to give lame excuses about shortcomings in girls education, run-down schools, inadequate teaching-learning aids, poor teacher supply, and funding.
Governments and activists view this dilemma as caused by drug companies' elevating profits over people, but the drugmakers call this view naive, saying that it ignores the cost of developing drugs and puts the onus on shareholders to supply poor countries.
If the poor countries adopt the farming and food supply networks that the rich countries currently use then much less food will be wasted.
The company apologized for poor communications and said it has overhauled its supply practices.
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The package follows another new measure announced by Mr Reddy - the free supply of electricity to small farmers and poor families.
As well as poor road and rail links, an unreliable water supply and nationalist opposition to the sale of state assets to foreigners, at the top of most people's lists is the lack of a legal system capable of passing good laws and enforcing them.
Poor education systems and rigid immigration rules hold back the supply of skilled labor.
These efforts displace local agriculture, put the rural poor out of work, and reduce the global food supply.
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Microfinance is the supply of small, usually unsecured loans to poor households and small businesses in developing countries.
About 1 billion people are still without access to a decent water supply, while others suffer from flooding, pollution and poor sanitation.
Poor infrastructure and Byzantine customs procedures are partly to blame for the gap between supply and demand.
Abundant and unhindered energy supply is perhaps the single most important element that separates rich from poor countries.
However, even tropical states can be water-constrained when the public infrastructure is so poor that inundation causes bacteria to run off from sewage and other sources and spoil the vital supply.
Poor countries argue that this is a nonsense, since better access to vaccines through greater generic supply would actually reduce their need for expensive treatments and should be a priority, not an exclusion.
Carly Fiorina, HP's chief executive, blamed the unit's poor performance on the absence of a traditional uplift at the end of the quarter and disruption caused by a new supply chain system.
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