And the region lacks the necessary workers and materials to fix them.

Some public schools lack basic educational materials and are overcrowded.

Secondary schools lack materials, from magazines to textbooks, to teach English.

Officially, 80,000 people have already gotten their pink slips because factories lack raw materials.

The group was self-initiated, but they lacked contacts, knowledge and materials to actually conduct intelligence work.

The authors stressed that half the adult population is lacking suitable materials written at their level.

Most other nuclear powers, years behind the atomic curve and often lacking top skills and materials, settled for less.

Some schools lacked curriculum plans and materials, the report said.

It also lacks certain raw materials to fuel its growing export industries.

English suppliers were also used, as the early United States lacked vital raw materials, most particularly brass.