Third, the secular decline in their commodity prices had resulted in a debt overhang that siphoned off scarce resources that could otherwise have been used to fight poverty.

Resources are scarce.

Of course, upward pressure on commodity prices also stems from supply side challenges. It is not just that global supplies of resources are increasingly scarce, but also that supplies are increasingly falling into inefficient hands.

But it has gained a new impetus in a world where climate change is already a reality, commodity prices are rising, and basic resources such as clean air, arable land, and fresh water are increasingly scarce.

Scarce labor drives wages.

Our resources are scarce.

Hard Wisdom for Scarce Water

When food is scarce, people share.

Number two a declining population means scarce labor.

Commodity prices fell, too.

Latin America s Commodity Windfall

Conflict is increasing as communities compete for scarce resources.

Jobs are scarce, and the future looks bleak everywhere.

People aren't fighting over scarce housing or lucrative jobs.

This would help reduce consumption of scarce natural resources.

When information is plentiful, the scarce resource is attention.

In Germany, food was scarce, but only 5 died.

Again, a commodity for consumption.

Things have value when they are both desirable and scarce.

Other than peat, dolomite, and limestone, natural resources are scarce.

The information passed to my Office is scarce and unconvincing.

International commodity markets are under stress.

United Nations commodity and other conferences.

How can measures to increase commodity price stability and returns from commodity exports contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals?

33. We emphasize the need to address the impact of weak and volatile commodity prices and support the efforts of commodity dependent countries to restructure, diversify and strengthen the competitiveness of their commodity sectors.

Society would be spending scarce resources on losers rather than winners.

Schools were scarce between World War I and World War II.

Evidence for prevalence of pain in newly diagnosed cancer is scarce.

Growth driven by high commodity prices is also susceptible to busts, for similar reasons. Commodity prices tend to move in cycles.

Fourth, the commodity super cycle that helped Brazil, Russia, South Africa, and many other commodity exporting emerging markets may be over.

But mounting environmental challenges, and the limited availability of commodity substitutes, suggest that a reprieve on commodity prices is not near.

The Global Implications of Falling Commodity Prices

After all, energy is a global commodity.

The Silver Lining in High Commodity Prices

Informal briefing on reproductive health commodity security

Informal briefing on reproductive health commodity security

SEOUL The commodity super cycle in which commodity prices reach ever higher highs, and fall only to higher lows is not over.

The same is true for ground water. Land is also increasingly scarce.

Twenty percent of global GDP already is produced in water scarce areas.

Expansions usually start collapsing when labor gets too scarce and too expensive.

2. Expresses the urgent need for supportive international policies and measures to improve the functioning of commodity markets through efficient and transparent price formation mechanisms, including commodity exchanges, and through the use of commodity price risk management instruments

Recognizing that commodity prices are an important element for heavily indebted poor countries that are commodity dependent in maintaining long term debt sustainability,

(v) systematically link debt repayment and debt servicing by commodity dependent developing countries to adverse movements in prices of commodity exports and imports

That is, our housing has become a commodity.

Emerging market demand has pushed up commodity prices.