However, the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of these programmes has been undermined by a lack of adequate resources, an acute shortage of trained manpower, a severe lack of educational and other instructional materials, a shortage of learning spaces and insufficient motivation for teachers and literacy facilitators due to poor working conditions.

UNESCO: Integrated Intergenerational Literacy Project (IILP)

We expect that the shortage of materials experienced by these customers will be resolved in the coming quarters.

FORBES: Connect

Longer stoppages would be even more expensive, as more and more parts of the economy were touched by a shortage of materials.

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