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124 examples of Inefficiency in a sentence
The retail sector is a huge source of
inefficiency
that effectively places a massive tax on India’s poor by driving up prices.
The
inefficiency
of the world’s financial system is not simply a result of obsolete rules and structures; profit-seeking is also a major factor.
The informal sector is mostly a consequence of the fact that people are disconnected from modern production networks – an
inefficiency
that will not be resolved simply by reducing the cost of registering a business or forcing small firms to pay taxes.
In other words, the drug-discovery process suffers from built-in inefficiency, owing to inadequate reporting.
Consider the energy
inefficiency
of an automobile, for example.
The fact that this informal deal benefits all sides exposes the terrible
inefficiency
of current fiscal policy (namely, punitive business taxes) and how capital controls magnify it.
As long as the system is corrupted from above, and as long as the only way common people can deal with the government is through bribery, says the report,
inefficiency
will reign and people will cheat each other.
At the same time, the EU should help to address the cause of extraordinary heating costs: the woeful energy
inefficiency
of most of the existing housing stock.
But, given widespread government corruption and inefficiency, such a program would have to be administered directly by a joint EU-Ukrainian task force.
Inefficiency
in agriculture, retail, and government are legendary.
But the winds of globalization were supposed to blow away the cobwebs of bribery and
inefficiency.
Uganda and other African countries need to be careful that protectionism doesn’t become a cover for
inefficiency
or corruption.
In doing so, the Commission is rewarding
inefficiency
and reducing the effectiveness of its commitments to clean up the environment.
American conservatives argue that a large public sector is subject to
inefficiency
and mismanagement, corruption, and bureaucratic abuse, while the taxation needed to support it blunts economic efficiency.
Consider the claims of
inefficiency
and waste.
Reforming the tax system to favor investment and eliminate complexity and
inefficiency
would help.
The late Paul Samuelson once said that every good cause is worth some
inefficiency.
African leaders need to root out graft, make the governance of energy utilities – some of which have been centers of corruption and
inefficiency
– more transparent, strengthen regulations, and increase public spending on energy infrastructure.
Third, it highlights three correlated goals: easing external pressure for domestic policy changes, building social inclusiveness through a basic social-security scheme, and reducing inefficiency, inequality, and corruption through major rural land reform.
The Shagari government quickly became mired in corruption and inefficiency, plunging the country into debt and a vicious cycle of unemployment, declining productivity, and social unrest.
They will need to create innovative products, penetrate new markets, and make bold investments in equipment, technology, and talent, while simultaneously scrutinizing every aspect of their operations for
inefficiency
and waste.
Likewise, administrative
inefficiency
has led to poor performance of high-profile efforts like the oil-for-food program.
The
inefficiency
of ethnic profiling was highlighted in early May, when the British government released figures showing that, of the more than 117,000 police stops made between 2007 and 2008, only 72 led to an arrest for terrorism-related offences.
Even with the
inefficiency
of current PV technology, we could meet the entire globe’s energy demand with solar panels by covering 250,000 square kilometers (155,342 square miles), about 2.6% of the Sahara Desert.
Lack of reasonably independent regulation and competent public administration – or, worse, one-person dictatorships – lead inexorably to economic waste and inefficiency, and eventually to political turmoil.
The state capitalism of the Greek Bronze Age or the Inca Empire was not motivated by economic inefficiency; nor did it necessarily create a more efficient economy.
Misled by this confusion, Venezuelans and Bolivians enthusiastically support the rebirth of state companies, without realizing that this only wastes resources that could have been spent better and more efficiently elsewhere, since few state companies ever succeed in ridding themselves of bureaucratic
inefficiency
or corruption.
Perceptions of corruption and
inefficiency
are high, underpinning weak public trust in institutions, while infrastructure investment has recently declined sharply.
I also have a pronounced disdain for red tape and
inefficiency.
The vast sums accumulated by former presidents Chun Doo Hwan (who amassed a $900 million slush fund) and Roh Dae Woo (who amassed $600 million from the business community) were but the tip of an iceberg of corruption and
inefficiency
that saturated both politics and the economy.
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