Several types of poverty may be distinguished depending on such factors as time or duration (long- or short-term or cyclical) and distribution (widespread, concentrated, individual). More From Britannica Causes of the Great Depression (Read Indira Gandhi’s 1975 Britannica essay on global underprivi...
Sufficient availability of food, however, does not necessarily ensure widespread access or fair allotment; an individual’s ability to access food depends on physical and economical factors. Moreover, the utilization of food can vary widely, particularly in the way that food is prepared and distribu...
With the world population growing more and more every day and weather becoming increasingly severe, food shortages have the potential of becoming more common and more widespread. But what other factors can create food shortages and is there anything we can do about it?
Pumps Are Dry as Fuel Drivers Return to Work; Panic-Buying Causes Widespread Shortages
of money to slowly fall—and inflation to pick up. This led merchants to raise their prices, causing widespread panic. In response, the emperor Diocletian issued what’s now known as the Edict on Maximum Prices, a series of price and wage controls designed to stop the rise of prices and ...
Survey responses indicated that the desire to migrate was widespread among all health professionals (24% of midwives, 29% of doctors, 51% of nurses, and 61% of PTs in the next 2 years) (Fig. 1). The top four preferred destination countries by survey respondents were the USA, Canada, ...
Dust plumes from the deserts or dry areas can cause large and widespread air pollution as the winds move. Such a case is evident in North America where dust winds from the Gobi desert have recurrently been a serious problem. Destruction of Infrastructure Soil erosion can affect infrastructural pr...
and vassals) andpopulation growth, which extended many commonfoodshortages into malnutrition, widespread disease, and starvation.MedievalBritain was afflicted by numerous famines, andFrancesuffered the effects of 75 or more in the same period. Nor wasRussiaspared; some 500,000 Russians died of ...
nonindustrial societies (present and past), this sort of inability to provide for one’s basic needs rests mainly upon temporary food shortages caused by natural phenomena or poor agricultural planning. Prices would rise because of scarcities of food, which brought widespread,albeittemporary, misery...
and financial institutions experience liquidity shortages. A financial crisis is often associated with a panic or abank runduring whichinvestorssell off assets or withdraw money from savings accounts because they fear that the value of those assets will drop if they remain in a financial institution...