For developers whose buildings are about to hit the market, the scarcity of new condos is good news, signaling a lack of competition and, perhaps, higher prices and an end to concessions.
Those scarcities hit the poor hardest because they can't afford the inflated prices that better-off consumers pay on the black market.
His tactics to calm the public, who have hit the streets in protests against scarcity and rampant crime, have seen him advance the date of the Christmas celebration in 2013, which many saw as an attempt to get him votes in the municipal elections on 8 December.
Nope, they're just messing with us, and taking another hit on the scarcity bong.
Cholera is endemic in the country and with municipal water supplies in the North hit by a scarcity of fuel, UNICEF is preparing for a rise in the numbers of cases.
Food prices, by the government's reckoning, have nearly doubled in the past year, hitting the poor, its main constituency, hardest of all.Even worse than inflation is scarcity.
A global US$300 billion (GDP£187.5 billion) market, beer also has a huge water footprint, and is frequently brewed in regions hit by water scarcity.
Colombians picked up the trade on their end to make up for the scarcity of work in regions hit by the after-effects of border tensions and paramilitary instability.
Even as this dispute between the Delhi and Haryana governments over the state of the Yamuna raged on, the city was hit with a water scarcity, now a routine feature of the north Indian summer.
Unemployment has jumped in Spain and Ireland, the two countries hit hardest by the property bust and the scarcity of mortgage credit.
