They are not an accident but are clearly aimed at overcoming what might be called his "human deficit".
Measured in works that will never be made, the cultural losses wrought by AIDS are elusive, and perhaps less immediately heart-rending than the raw human deficit, but they are losses all the same.
While some would address only the "financial deficit", others would redress the "human deficit".
While the budget deficit is certainly a long-range problem, the infrastructure, wage, education and human investment deficits are far more important and far more likely to cause us long-term harm as a country and a people.
Second, 'social citizenship" would help minimize the pernicious practice of "vote buying" that is quite widespread in Africa, due to the human needs deficits.
These human capital deficits make it difficult to obtain employment, especially given increasing demands for highly educated and skilled workers and a shrinking pool of well-paying jobs for low-skilled workers (Bernhardt et al. 2001; Morris and Western 1999).
We harm the global poor when we collaborate in imposing an unjust global institutional order on them and, moreover, that order is unjust when it foreseeably perpetuates large-scale human rights deficits that can reasonably be avoided were we to make quite feasible institutional modifications (Pogge 2002, 2008, 2010).
Flexibility in task assignments to accommodate local and national human resource deficits is essential.
There are added concerns regarding a contribution of intrauterine stress to human attention deficits, cognitive performance, anxiety, depression, autism and schizophrenia [ 7, 8].
However, it is also clear that much more new thinking is necessary to overcome the growing human capacity deficits in the light of the ever growing demands made on human resources for HIV care.
