"generate needs" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where someone is creating needs for something, either through a lack of existing needs or an increase in demand. For example: "The new marketing campaign was so successful that it managed to generate needs for the product that didn't previously exist."
The motives generate needs, which lead to aspirations, which in turn drive behavior.
Consequently, the areas that respond to the basic needs of a relevant share of the urban population also generate needs that are more difficult to address, in comparison with the formal areas of the city.
As countries progress towards the objective of universal health coverage, demand for health services is projected to increase and generate needs for more physicians and other providers of service [ 39].
Although providing less information than active surveillance, aggregated antibiogram data are a generally accurate way for health departments to generate needed community-specific estimates of pneumococcal resistance.
How will you generate needed support?
Then, they envision value-added distribution operations that would generate needed jobs in the poorer, urban areas near the port.
"It will do two things: it will inhibit the progress of organized crime and generate needed tax revenue".
Mayor Idoni said the city planned to work with Ikea to pursue an alternative redevelopment project for that location that would generate needed revenues for the city.
But they bet that their own base was depressed by the Republicans' inability to repeal the health care law, and that the issue would generate needed energy.
Are there other regions where arts organizations have found ways to generate needed funding that can serve as models for those in the Netherlands?
While Tiger Woods remains by far the most talked about player in golf, Sorenstam's run has helped generate needed attention for the L.P.G.A. Tour, something that Lopez brought during her sensational year in 1978.
