Risks to Mauritania's economy include its recurring exposure to droughts, dependence on foreign aid and investment, and insecurity in neighboring Mali, as well as significant shortages of infrastructure, institutional capacity, and human capital.
In Mae Tao Clinic which provides health care services for migrants and internally displaced populations the availability and quality of care were described as inadequate with shortages of infrastructure, equipment, staff, medicines and training at the start of the program with later improvement.
But Sankar says that due to a shortage of resources, the system suffers from massive gaps including shortage of infrastructure and poor levels of teacher training.
This is most likely due to a shortage of infrastructure and lack of financial resources for cancer care in these countries.
The problem of shortage of infrastructure also extended to the wards and outpatient waiting rooms in all the treatment centres where TB and HIV patients could occasionally be confined to the same rooms.
Other problems were shortages of necessary infrastructure at the shipyards, lengthy delays in delivery of parts, and labor shortages and a lack of building slips in the naval dockyards.
But in Tanzania many designated delivery facilities are unable to provide basic emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC) due to shortages of essential infrastructure, equipment, medicines, and above all, human resources [ 7– 9].
A country that is one of the world's biggest oil and gas producers is riddled with chronic shortages, a lack of infrastructure basic and almost no economic activity outside the energy sector.
In the area around Lake Kivu, primarily in North Kivu, fighting continues among the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda and between the government FARDC and Laurent Nkunda's troops, with all groups greatly exacerbating the issues of internal refugees in the area of Goma, the consequent food shortages, and loss of infrastructure from the years of conflict.
Recent flooding, which by some estimates submerged 50 percent of Manila, illustrates a shortage of modern infrastructure that makes the Philippines highly vulnerable to disasters.
During a speech in October, the Swiss foreign minister, Micheline Calmy-Rey, who is the president this year, said it was "worrying" that Geneva was being held back from a more important global role by the shortage of local infrastructure.
