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For example, alcohol is now considered an inefficient method for cleaning wounds, because it kills infection-fighting white blood cells.
For example, economists generally agree that agricultural subsidies are inefficient and that the benefits to European farmers come at large costs to everyone else in Europe, in the form of high prices, high taxes, or both.
At the same time, inefficient, wasteful, and incompetent companies – especially those that are generating high levels of pollution, depleting natural resources, and creating excess capacity – should be encouraged to exit the market, with modern and innovative companies taking their place.
And they must initiate a similar process to weed out inefficient borrowers from the banking (and shadow banking) system.
Neither presidential (the prime minister is accountable to the National Assembly, whereas there is no accountability in a presidential regime) nor parliamentary (the president is elected by direct suffrage and has significant power), the system has seen increasing periods of “cohabitation,” which has generally proven inefficient.
In a fiscal crunch, the first spending cuts hit productive public investments, because governments prefer to protect current – and often inefficient – spending on public-sector jobs and transfer payments to the private sector.
And the Chinese economy faces serious obstacles to sustainable rapid growth, owing to inefficient state-owned enterprises, growing inequality, massive internal migration, an inadequate social safety net, corruption, and inadequate institutions, all of which could foster political instability.
That democracy may be freewheeling, boisterous, corrupt, and inefficient.
Now I worry that they are terribly inefficient.
As it stands, poor educational outcomes and inefficient education systems are eliciting deep concern worldwide.
Moreover, buildings and houses constructed of concrete with thin glass windows are inefficient to heat and cool.
This approach would be much more effective than inefficient subsidies, or focusing on incremental efficiency improvements.
There is something grossly inefficient – even immoral – about this allocation of resources, which undermines the development of health solutions for those who need them most.
The patchwork of 28 separate asylum systems is expensive and inefficient, and it produces wildly uneven results in terms of the reception, status determination, and integration of new arrivals.
Yes, there is still a financial crisis in the US, but stoking inflation is an incredibly unfair and inefficient way to deal with it.
This is highly inefficient, because while it is individually rational for depositors to want their money immediately, the bank might have been able to service all of them had they been collectively patient.
The same goes for the banking system, which today consists of little besides an inefficient, state-owned virtual monopolist.
The countries that adopted the euro had poor labor-market institutions, bloated pension systems, high taxes on labor income, and inefficient service sectors in the late 1990’s, and they still do now.
After progressively dismantling their inefficient policy frameworks in favor of “liberal” reforms, the two giants began to stride forth.
But, in developed countries, concentration on economic growth is an extraordinarily inefficient way to increase general prosperity, because it means that an economy must grow by, say, 3% to raise the earnings of the majority by, say, 1%.
With a global recession looming and high oil and food prices undermining the living standards of the Western middle class, it is becoming ever harder to sell the high-cost, inefficient Kyoto-style solution of drastic carbon cuts.
The current one, Dmitri Medvedev, has been discredited as inefficient and – to a public that views him as a political pygmy – unworthy of the level of personal corruption that has been exposed.
But the viability of Deng’s model is nearing its end, and China is now addicted to inefficient state-led fixed investment and unsustainable export-led growth, rather than domestic consumption, to generate jobs and growth.
A single standing EU army in lieu of Europe’s largely irrelevant and inefficient national armed forces, with a budget of around 1% of EU GDP – some €130 billion – would instantly become the world’s second leading military force, after the US, in terms of resources and, one would hope, capabilities.
In their eyes, governments are inefficient and self-interested at best, and dictatorial and oppressive at worst.
Unfortunately, the numbers don’t add up and he is laying twin time bombs with the explosion of federal government debt and inefficient government micromanagement of the economy.
Sometimes it is restricted to a particular episode and is based on evidence accumulated after the fact: Yes, the Soviet economic system was hugely inefficient; yes, the Obama fiscal stimulus of 2009 did reduce unemployment.
Rolling out a nationwide fiber-optic network, rather than simply servicing the locales that are most in need, would be both expensive and inefficient.
Africa has long suffered under the belief that passionate tribal attachments are inefficient, irresponsible, and inhumane.
Unfortunately, the diffusion and dissemination of innovative ideas in the fields of public health and health care is generally a random, haphazard, and inefficient process.
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