"a recent problem" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a difficulty or issue that has recently arisen. For example, "The rise in unemployment is a recent problem that this administration must address."
"Tax avoidance is not a recent problem.
Nor is it a recent problem.
Those who believe this is only a recent problem, an issue brought to a head by provocative texts, are misguided.
But the Giants, the defending Super Bowl champions, have had a recent problem with dropping the ball.
In the field of aircraft design, a recent problem deals with the improving of aircraft behaviour during survivable crash events.
Well, it can be decent if the hitters stay healthy and hit, but that has been a recent problem for the Reds.
This negative result (which was replicated in another experiment) was interpreted in terms of a recent problem-solving account of infants' perseverative errors in various means-end tasks (Aguiar, A., & Baillargeon, R. (2000).
The beetle is a relatively recent problem in Ethiopia and Latin America, where most Arabica coffee is grown.
This is a relatively recent problem, because the rise of modern capitalism coincided with the rise of modern democracies, making wealth inequality inconsistent with political equality.
In a more recent problem, New York Education Commissioner Richard P. Mills last month set aside the results of the Math A Regents exam for juniors and seniors, acknowledging that it was flawed.
Many think of racial profiling as a relatively recent problem that manifested in the 1980s when news of African Americans being pulled over for "driving while black" began making national headlines.
