The hardest task will be to raise Japan's productivity to offset the looming manpower shortage.

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Lester Ellman, of the British Dental Association, welcomed the fact that extra dentists had been recruited to work in the NHS, but said quick fix solutions would not solve the manpower shortage in the longer term.

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With the transition from fully-insured health benefits to employer-sponsored self-funded health benefit plans, employers now seek to find ways to transfer their employees from healthcare quality and manpower shortage areas to providers offering measurable higher quality, better customer service, and better outcomes.

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However, the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of these programmes has been undermined by a lack of adequate resources, an acute shortage of trained manpower, a severe lack of educational and other instructional materials, a shortage of learning spaces and insufficient motivation for teachers and literacy facilitators due to poor working conditions.

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These troubles are made worse by a chronic shortage of manpower.

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He argues that there is a grave shortage of manpower, that Sunni officers have fled or been removed, and that large parts of the army are secretly reaching out the FSA to defect.

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Western companies had a tremendous shortage of trained manpower, and we made them aware that we had a solution.

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But the latest announcement underscores the shortage of combat manpower in the Army.

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Narayana Murthy : While the pressure on Western corporations to leverage the power of technology has been mounting for years, it became acute in the late '90s, and there was a tremendous shortage of trained manpower to do the application-development work involved.

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