In some cases, the availability of low-cost, high-quality expertise in India could transform the economics of the industries that they serve.Most of the new entrepreneurs are aiming for the higher rungs of the value ladder, where competition is scarcer, returns are generous, and new technology does not threaten to make them redundant.
In the months ahead unemployment, which lags the economic cycle, looks set to rise, although this may be tempered by migrants returning to eastern Europe as jobs in Britain become scarce.The return of stagflation has put the Bank of England in a bind.
Tickets for this four-hour set (with Somne in support) are scarce, but returns are cropping up online.
Poor countries, when they are well governed, are assumed to have an advantage in this: where capital is scarce, the returns on new investments should be high, which ought to promote saving and attract inflows of capital from abroad.
When everyone is advertising, for instance, it's hard to separate yourself from the pack; when ads are scarcer, the returns on investment seem to rise.
That could make foreign interest scarcer still — and return Greek banks to their Catch-22.
This management of the yield curve — the spectrum of interest rates by maturity — would tend to depress rates further, part of a strategy to force investors to be more venturesome and look toward markets where buyers have been scarce despite juicy returns.
After 30 years of good harvests, even food became scarce: malnutrition finally returned to the island.
Soon we sense the impending landing (in our ears -- pressurization sometimes is a scarce commodity), and we return our seat backs to their full upright position (as opposed to the 91-degree position we used for relaxing).
"We need to see more dispensed so that they are less scarce and therefore they return to cash centres for sorting more often," he said.
