The main problems of scarcity are water and food shortages, demographic change and state failure.

而匮乏的主要诱因是水及食物短缺、人口结构变化和国家政策的失败。

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Similarly, the European Union's declared security strategy sees state failure as an "alarming" phenomenon.

同样，欧盟公布的安全战略也宣布将国家的衰败视为“报警”现象。

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Keep in mind: at the start of this century, many experts predicted that AIDS would depopulate the African region, raising the prospect of state failure in the hardest-hit places.

要知道，本世纪之初时，许多专家曾预言艾滋病将使非洲区域人口减少，并指出受影响最严重地区的国家将面临失败的前景。

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In a statement,the State Department said the decision was made in recognition of the de facto regime's failure to restore democratic, constitutional rule to Honduras.

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Given the messy intractability of state failure, who or what has a chance of solving it?

ECONOMIST: Failed states

As first conceived, it would have had enforcement powers and tried to pre-empt state failure, not just cure it.

ECONOMIST: Failed states

They rates banks based on customer satisfaction, stability (state-by-state failure rates), availability of high interest rates, and size of the banking community (more choices is better).

FORBES: Looking Back At Bank Failure Rates